[libreoffice-users] RFE: HTML compatibility option "Do not modify metadata when saving"

<div><pre>Hello!<br /><br />LibreOffice will be very useful<br />in collaborative text editing <br 
/>if <br />* document in plain HTML format will be saved in the versioned storage 
(Subversion/CVS/&hellip; repository) and <br />* with automatic merging of changes made by 
different people.<br /><br />But now every merge operation produces at least one conflict: it's a 
conflict <br />in &lt;meta&gt; tags:<br />&lt;meta name="GENERATOR"&gt; - some people use Linux, 
some people use Windows<br />&lt;meta name="CHANGED"&gt; - changed on every document save 
operation, so automatic <br />merge is not possible. <br /><br />Furthermore, when CVS or 
Subversion client discovers <br />conflicts, it adds conflict markers like '&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt; 
1.1 .... ====== ..... &gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt; <br />1.2' in the conflict areas, so document could not 
be opened more as valid HTML, <br />because the HTML header is the conflict area.<br /><br />I know 
there is a check-box named "Apply user data" in document properties (File/Properties), and <br />if 
I uncheck it before saving, &lt;meta name="CHANGED"&gt; isn't overwritten on every <br />save and 
my personal data isn't written into the document, but:<br />1) &lt;meta name="GENERATOR"&gt; is 
_still_ overwritten on every save;<br />2) I need to uncheck "Apply user data" every time opening 
the document.<br /><br />I also know that there is an option "Remove personal data on save" in 
security <br />settings, but it also doesn't help: &lt;meta name="CHANGED"&gt; is cleared, but 
&lt;meta <br />name="CREATED"&gt; is always overwritten by current time (WTF???!!), and &lt;meta 
<br />name="GENERATOR"&gt; is also still overwritten. <br />So this also produces conflicts.<br 
/><br />I suggest you to add an HTML compatibility option "Do not modify metadata when <br 
/>saving" or something like that. This will be very useful for people <br />who want organize a 
convenient versioned storage for text documents.<br /><br />Thanks in advance.<br /><br />  
Sincerely, Stas Fomin</pre></div>
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