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You can still use 'straight Git', maybe with some PR management system like GitHub/GitLab/... . The difference is you can't rely on the diff to be useful, inste
by wcerfgba 5y ago
You can still use 'straight Git', maybe with some PR management system like GitHub/GitLab/... . The difference is you can't rely on the diff to be useful, instead you'd need to provide a good commit message summarising the changes (which you should do anyway!) and then reviewers will need to check out the relevant version to poke it directly in Excel.
But I agree that being able to manage an XLS(X) as plain text and having a proper diff would be incredibly useful. :)
- da_chicken 5y agoI highly doubt you'd ever get diff for XLS in a general or universal case. That format is so old and crusty that it's only really defined by what Excel will do with it. XLSX, on the other hand, at least has to follow XML conventions and basic ZIP file structure, even if the open specification for the XML is really now a strict subset of what the current version of Excel will accept.