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Re: Diffing M$-Word

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DHDr. Lars Hanke <lars@lhanke.de>
Date
Aug 5, 2009, 19:35 UTC
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>> 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 
> 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.

That sounds good. I'll try to setup this solution at work. I actually started writing a similar thing in C# .NET, since I didn't know that you could just add a .dot to supply a macro.

Thanks,
 - lars.
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  6. Eric StegemollerAug 4, 2009
  7. Diffing M$-WordDr. Lars Hanke, Aug 4, 2009
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  10. Johannes SixtAug 4, 2009
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