Re: How can I get full filenames from Git difftool (for Microsoft Word “Compare Documents” feature)?

Doug Ireton [off-list ref] writes:

I am using the latest version of Git (1.6.6) on a Mac. My wife wants
to use Git to manage her fiction writing as long as she can still use
Microsoft Word 2008 (Mac). Instead of pushing her into saving
everything as plain text, I would like to use Git Difftool to pass the
files to Word and use Word's Compare Documents feature. She wouldn't
be able to use Git Diff since Word docs are binary files but she could
still use Git Difftool.

If you're interested in diff-ing the _text_ itself, you can use the
textconv filter of Git, together with antiword (or catdoc, which does
the same thing, but I think antiword works better).

See this:

http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitTips#HowtousegittotrackOpenDocument.28OpenOffice.2CKoffice.29files.3F

and adapt by replacing "OpenOffice" with MS Word, and odt2txt with
antiword.

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