From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 11:51:58 GMT
Subject: Re: Advice on choosing git
Message-ID: <20100513115158.GB10963@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <vpqvdasgh8d.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 01:42:58PM +0200, Matthieu Moy wrote:

> Joe Brenner <doom@kzsu.stanford.edu> writes:
> 
> > You won't get any benefit out of things like "git diff" either.  The
> > diffs we have (these days at least) don't work well on anything but plain
> > text.
> 
> Not totally true. textconv filter is just great when working when
> word-processors (with the filter being odt2txt or antiword).

I agree. Whoever wrote the textconv code was a genius. ;)

But I did want to note that textconv is just _one_ way of seeing the
data. You can also have git invoke custom diff and merge handlers. I
haven't tried it, but I suspect you may be able to drive the interactive
graphical versioning found in many word processors. I thought somebody
had done some work on this, but I can't seem to dig up a link.

-Peff