2009/8/4 Dr. Lars Hanke <lars@xxxxxxxxx>: > 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html