I\'ve heard discussion about how OpenOffice (ODF) files are compressed zip files of XML and other data. So making a tiny change to the file can potentially totally change th
You may consider to store documents in FODT-format - flat XML format. This is relatively new alternative solution available.
Document is just stored unzipped.
More info is available at https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Libreoffice_and_subversion.