Git (or Hg) plugin for dealing with Microsoft Word and/or OpenOffice files

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How about:

  1. Save your Word docs in XML.
  2. Commit your XML Word files.

  3. Diff using an external XML diff tool. For example:

    $ git difftool -t xmldiff c3d293 498571

Transforming the XML files to have one element per line should make the check-in process run efficiently and also allow the external XML diff tool to process quickly.

References:

  • http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-difftool.html
  • http://www.logilab.org/projects/xmldiff

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