From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Tapsell Subject: Re: Diffing M$-Word Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 20:10:31 +0300 Message-ID: <43d8ce650908041010w1ffa3040m4b783fc0d347818e@mail.gmail.com> References: <4A70AE1F.7070004@idmcomp.com> <36ca99e90907291345r188a2182n77a2fd5cb55a8bc4@mail.gmail.com> <4A71F2F1.4060605@idmcomp.com> <20090801111227.GA26029@gmail.com> <4A7841BF.5060308@idmcomp.com> <4A7869BD.5010209@lhanke.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: "Dr. Lars Hanke" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Aug 04 19:10:40 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 1MYNX6-0007Eg-8T for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 04 Aug 2009 19:10:40 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933096AbZHDRKb (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Aug 2009 13:10:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933087AbZHDRKb (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Aug 2009 13:10:31 -0400 Received: from mail-gx0-f213.google.com ([209.85.217.213]:56447 "EHLO mail-gx0-f213.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933095AbZHDRKa (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Aug 2009 13:10:30 -0400 Received: by gxk9 with SMTP id 9so7033424gxk.13 for ; Tue, 04 Aug 2009 10:10:31 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=VSCUheHVIAL7H+7rkoep56veK4TP18lBTvsnuO2Eo0c=; b=mD1jUuT/YXxUT/V8rImgG8k1jiR/McpiiF+Z1PETiG3KvikqDf+czjB4YkQfxHaWl3 tDjXoDonPGC1ZPRAzpBf1HuNmfA6+pOq4ACdnmKoIQVqVLd9FiK1Vp/qppzFbs4UIkY0 kchlvAASGPVsC29FpuzijvsrbANGsfyGVqGq4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=XxGjbCe7QKoKKLLJCk1AzncP7E6SGQPdbt5tPZ1pKZmuswTnS/cEn5/ZX5xL9O0i1a /yX6pf/PVx2qbyM27Pj1NWQ6+Hd1iGLU4iUI1mGlAoDp5AKm1gAuLPhEixDExUuvCn8w /RJUT5qq+CHwfyKo4+JXk4LzT3MwErDOVaaMk= Received: by 10.151.148.16 with SMTP id a16mr13465626ybo.245.1249405831199; Tue, 04 Aug 2009 10:10:31 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4A7869BD.5010209@lhanke.de> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 2009/8/4 Dr. Lars Hanke : > 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