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A program can only show you information that it records as part of its file format (metadata). If LibreOffice records the data on which date each line is written as part of the normal file format,...
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2019-12-08T05:49:16Z (over 4 years ago)
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2019-12-08T05:49:16Z (over 4 years ago)
A program can only show you information that it records as part of its file format (metadata). If LibreOffice records the data on which date each line is written as part of the normal file format, then, in theory, it could show it to you. And if it didn't show it to you in the interface, you could open up the ODT file (it's a zipped set of XML files) and see for yourself. But it is vanishingly unlikely that it records that information when review changes is turned off. GIT is a version control system. It records the differences in a file each time you check that file in. So it can tell you the difference between a file on any two dates. Which means it can tell you all the changes that were made to a file on any given date. But that does not actually tell you what day the changes were made in the file. It tells you what day the changes were checked into the GIT repository. In other words, it does not tell you what you wrote yesterday; it tells you what you checked in yesterday. If you make it a habit to check in at the end of every work day, then what you checked in yesterday is the same as what you wrote yesterday. But this may not work with LibreOffice files because LibreOffice files are binary files and GIT is designed to work with text files. If you check in binary files, it won't store the differences, it just stores a new copy of the whole files. It is possible that there might be an ODT plugin for GIT that would allows it to unzip the file and store the differences of the XML files inside, but that could get complicated to manage. If you did have complete versions of the files from different days, however, you could always use the compare version feature of LibreOffice to tell you the difference between them.
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2016-12-28T17:27:45Z (over 7 years ago)
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