okfn/dataprotocols — pull request #10 by paulfitz (2012-03-22 15:12:15+00:00)
Title: first pass at documenting diff formats for data

Here's some documentation on diffing/patching tabular data. Joe Panico of diffkit.org and I looked for good tabular diff formats some time back, but SQL scripts seemed to be all there was. I've given some alternatives now in use with Coopy, and sketched the path to distributed revision control. Pending documentation: how to present and resolve conflicts, efficiency issues, connecting repositories to "live" databases, etc. Is this material relevant for dataprotocols?