From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2009 19:31:31 GMT
Subject: Re: Diffing M$-Word
Message-ID: <4A788C93.10402@kdbg.org>
In-Reply-To: <4A7869BD.5010209@lhanke.de>

Dr. Lars Hanke schrieb:
> 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.

I use a dual solution. I defined catdoc as a textconv filter so that I can 
see textual changes in gitk; and I use my winworddiff crude hack that I 
posted here

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/59288

as a external diff program (note: *not* a difftool). With these, I can 
limp along sufficiently.

-- Hannes