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Re: Diffing M$-Word

From
Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@imag.fr>
Date
Aug 4, 2009, 17:10 UTC
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<vpqk51jtsif.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
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"Dr. Lars Hanke" <lars@lhanke.de> writes:
> 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.
antiword can be your friend.

See http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitTips#opendocument for some receipe with OpenOffice documents, they apply equally well with .doc document with antiword.

-- 
Matthieu
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