"Dr. Lars Hanke" [off-list ref] 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.
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Matthieu