xlwings Newsletter #5

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Git for Excel

We're happy to announce our 2nd London based xlwings meetup about "Git for Excel".

Agenda

1) Main Talk: Git for Excel

2) Lightening Talk: The new dynamic arrays in Excel

As usual: If you have a topic (even just 5 minutes) about an interesting Excel related topic that you want to talk about, just send us a message and we'll put you on the agenda.

Git for Excel

When dealing with critical Excel workbooks, you want to have proper source control in place. Felix will present the different challenges we face when using Git with Excel files and how we can solve them by using the right mix of settings, extensions and Git workflow.

Following topics and techniques will be discussed:

• Viewing diffs (sheets and VBA code)

• Open source Git extensions: Git LFS (Large File Storage) and git-xltrail

• Merge conflict handling

• Single and multi branch Git workflows

Where

: The Microsoft Reactor (London)

When

: Monday, September 23rd, 6:30 PM

Costs

: This is a free event