From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@imag.fr>
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2009 17:10:00 GMT
Subject: Re: Diffing M$-Word
Message-ID: <vpqk51jtsif.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <4A7869BD.5010209@lhanke.de>

"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