Re: Diffing M$-Word

2009/8/4 Dr. Lars Hanke [off-list ref]:

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.

With the openoffice format, .odt, the file is just a zip file that you
can unzip either manually or with a commit hook (and rezip with a
checkout hook).

I think Microsoft's format .docx could do something similar.

That sort of diff will help git do it's job properly (e.g. you can
then see when a particular image has changed etc), but not useful for
a human to view.

I think a way to specify a difftool based on extension would certainly
be useful.  Then distros could provide default useful difftools (for
comparing images, etc)

John