Sharing vym files via git

[lyda]

Just curious if folks have any advice for sharing .vym files in a git repo. They're a binary format so merging won't work. Wondering if other people do this.

[insilmaril]

Haven't heard of this before, but indeed had the same idea. What you can do is unzipping the .vym file and you will get plain a plain .xml in the archive - this can be saved/read by vym and of course used in git.

Though it will only contain the map without images and other then internal flags, so user flags are not read.

Not sure if this helps, An interesting concept idea I have to store the map and it's history and allow simultanous changes. Medium could be git or the cloud, but this would require deeper architectural changes, so postponed at least for now.

[insilmaril]

Ah, should have mentrioned: You can export as .xml and vym also can read xml directly. Thus you won't have to zip/unzip manually.

If the maps don't change every day, git LFS might also be an option to store the binaries

[gearmo3ds]

I am glad to have found this post, I did not see the xml listed under the import menu but I can load it via file open after all!
It's great to have it in text-format so that I can put it in my code repository!
I am using wym to manage my ideas and thoughts for my "Noise Commander 3DS" development project, it's perfect for that!
Great work Uwe!