From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Dr. Lars Hanke" Subject: Diffing M$-Word Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2009 19:02:53 +0200 Message-ID: <4A7869BD.5010209@lhanke.de> References: <4A70AE1F.7070004@idmcomp.com> <36ca99e90907291345r188a2182n77a2fd5cb55a8bc4@mail.gmail.com> <4A71F2F1.4060605@idmcomp.com> <20090801111227.GA26029@gmail.com> <4A7841BF.5060308@idmcomp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Aug 04 19:03:13 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MYNPt-0003kV-5q for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 04 Aug 2009 19:03:13 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933060AbZHDRC7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Aug 2009 13:02:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932953AbZHDRC7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Aug 2009 13:02:59 -0400 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.171]:52830 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932889AbZHDRC6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Aug 2009 13:02:58 -0400 Received: from hermod.mgr (p5B36455C.dip.t-dialin.net [91.54.69.92]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mreu1) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0MKv1o-1MYNPe1jQx-000og0; Tue, 04 Aug 2009 19:02:58 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by hermod.mgr (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB57F1DC25D for ; Tue, 4 Aug 2009 19:02:57 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at hermod.mgr Received: from hermod.mgr ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (hermod.mgr [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id gwCmUyAfQM+G for ; Tue, 4 Aug 2009 19:02:54 +0200 (CEST) Received: from sleipnir.mgr (sleipnir.mgr [172.16.1.3]) by hermod.mgr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20C641DC245 for ; Tue, 4 Aug 2009 19:02:54 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (X11/20090706) In-Reply-To: <4A7841BF.5060308@idmcomp.com> X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18wVI6MfQovI7+nWm35s0cpZ/EibzrxAKj1Qko mzuBWq9JWPVJJ5IiSQtCk5dwoUreYYLv69uUfwymR5k0A1J9tV vnCl+Y/+mfbgemTO7vq/A== Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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. I think it should be possible to define Word itself as the external diff tool, as described in one of today's posts > git config --global diff.tool TestTool > git config --global difftool.TestTool.cmd "C:/Programme/Microsoft Office/Office/Winword.exe" "\$LOCAL" "\$REMOTE" "\\mSomething" i.e. open both versions and auto-execute a macro, which in turn will do the compare. Well, just an idea, my knowledge about the M$ and Windoze in general stuff is weak. Has this or something else been tried? Is there any howto for this around? Probably a similar approach could be chosen for OOo - for me as a TeXnician, using git is straight forward anyhow. ;) Regards, - lars.