A problem when using using QlikView together with some sort of version control is that the QlikView file (*.qvw) can get quite large when there is data in it and there really isn’t anyneed for all that data just to keep track of the report. There is a possibility to clear all the data from a report so it becomes an empty shell with just the format and code.

Another thing is that much of the “code” in a QlikView report is embeded in that proprietary binary file format (at least up to QlikView 8.5. I’v heard rumors about a XML format for version 9 and will investigate later). I have solved that by keeping as much of the script part of the file in an external qvs file that is just a normal text file and then include those necessary into the report at reload time.