From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Randall S. Becker" Subject: Followup: Managing EXCEL with git - diff problem. Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2015 08:55:11 -0400 Message-ID: <02d801d07132$159f76a0$40de63e0$@nexbridge.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Apr 07 14:58:44 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YfT5T-0007H2-As for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Apr 2015 14:58:39 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753296AbbDGM6d (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Apr 2015 08:58:33 -0400 Received: from elephants.elehost.com ([216.66.27.132]:27047 "EHLO elephants.elehost.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754488AbbDGMzR (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Apr 2015 08:55:17 -0400 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at elehost.com Received: from pangea (CPE0023eb577e25-CM602ad06c91a7.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [99.237.128.150]) (authenticated bits=0) by elephants.elehost.com (8.14.9/8.14.9) with ESMTP id t37CtCCs020655 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 7 Apr 2015 08:55:12 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from rsbecker@nexbridge.com) X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 15.0 Thread-Index: AdBxMSvjJhsVQmIwSKaIeXEHh8/9Cg== Content-Language: en-ca Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi all, There was a discussion a while back on how to manage EXCEL content in git. This involved a simple trick of modifying the file extension from .xlsx to .zip and unpacking the file - resulting in a whole bunch of XML files. Git is happy with that part and the content can be managed - slightly. Unfortunately, EXCEL stores its XML content in single lines. Git has no problem with that either, as far as managing the content, but the lines can be really long. However, after about 20K in size, while the config: alias.wdiff=diff --color-words The ability of git to report differences goes away - as in no output from git diff. This occurs on Windows and Linux under git 2.3.3 and git 2.3.0. I'm not sure whether this is a user error, a usage error, or an actual problem. I had originally raised this as a SourceTree problem figuring it might be there: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/SRCTREEWIN-3145 Any advice (preferably no teasing - :-) - I am considering smudging but would rather avoid that)? Cheers, Randall -- Brief whoami: NonStop&UNIX developer since approximately UNIX(421664400)/NonStop(211288444200000000) -- In my real life, I talk too much.