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Re: Advice on choosing git

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Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date
May 13, 2010, 11:42 UTC
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Joe Brenner <doom@kzsu.stanford.edu> writes:
> You won't get any benefit out of things like "git diff" either.  The
> diffs we have (these days at least) don't work well on anything but plain
> text.

Not totally true. textconv filter is just great when working when word-processors (with the filter being odt2txt or antiword).

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Message 11 of 13 in “Advice on choosing git”
  1. Noah SilvermanMay 12, 2010
  2. Dmitry PotapovMay 12, 2010
  3. Ramkumar RamachandraMay 12, 2010
  4. Jonathan NiederMay 12, 2010
  5. Joe BrennerMay 13, 2010
  6. Avery PennarunMay 13, 2010
  7. Matthieu MoyMay 13, 2010
  8. Avery PennarunMay 13, 2010
  9. Anthony W. YoungmanMay 19, 2010
  10. Avery PennarunMay 19, 2010
  11. Matthieu MoyMay 13, 2010
  12. Jeff KingMay 13, 2010
  13. Martin LanghoffMay 13, 2010

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