Re: Diffing M$-Word

From: John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 4, 2009, 17:10 UTC
Message-ID: <43d8ce650908041010w1ffa3040m4b783fc0d347818e@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4A7869BD.5010209@lhanke.de>

2009/8/4 Dr. Lars Hanke <lars@lhanke.de>:

> At work I have to write a lot of reports using M$-Word and found that git is
> capable of managing these in an easy and meaningful way. However, diffing of
> course does not work. I checked the web for solutions, but somehow, I did
> not hit the correct search pattern.

With the openoffice format, .odt, the file is just a zip file that you can unzip either manually or with a commit hook (and rezip with a checkout hook).

I think Microsoft's format .docx could do something similar.

That sort of diff will help git do it's job properly (e.g. you can then see when a particular image has changed etc), but not useful for a human to view.

I think a way to specify a difftool based on extension would certainly be useful. Then distros could provide default useful difftools (for comparing images, etc)

John