[Corpora-List] Using version control software in corpus construction

[Angus B. Grieve-Smith]

Rainer Ottmueller wrote:
> As your primary concern seems to be querying afterwards, in opposite
> to a version control system, a database is recommended. An arbitrary
> relational DB is suitable, but only if you need to store plain text.
    I would like to point out that while a version-control repository 
may not be a relational database, it's still a database.  Some may even 
have relational databases underlying them.  The point here is not 
whether you have a database, it's whether the words are stored as 
individual records.

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				-Angus B. Grieve-Smith
				grvsmth at panix.com


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