Re: Advice on choosing git

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 01:42:58PM +0200, Matthieu Moy wrote:

Joe Brenner [off-list ref] writes:

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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).

I agree. Whoever wrote the textconv code was a genius. ;)

But I did want to note that textconv is just _one_ way of seeing the
data. You can also have git invoke custom diff and merge handlers. I
haven't tried it, but I suspect you may be able to drive the interactive
graphical versioning found in many word processors. I thought somebody
had done some work on this, but I can't seem to dig up a link.

-Peff