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"Report Final Final draft v3.docx" is in a proprietary format format controlled by a single company. The spec may be open in some sense, but it's far from a le
by loudmax 5y ago
"Report Final Final draft v3.docx" is in a proprietary format format controlled by a single company. The spec may be open in some sense, but it's far from a level playing field.
- sgjohnson 5y ago> is in a proprietary format format controlled by a single company. It's not proprietary by definition. A nightmare to implement? Yes. But definitely not proprietary.
- _dain_ 5y agoIt doesn't follow the published open spec so it is de facto proprietary.
- yjftsjthsd-h 5y agoRight, but if that company released a diff tool for docx (or someone reverse engineered one), git would work with it. I don't expect that to happen, I'm just saying git isn't the limiting factor.
- sgjohnson 5y agoPre-commit hook to convert to plaintext or markdown[0]. And there you go, a human readable diff. [0]https://github.com/benbalter/word-to-markdown https://github.com/benbalter/word-to-markdown