Post #1104280

2025-04-24 13:38 UTC

I just managed to get @forgejo to do reviews on Word documents of all things. Thanks to it delegating to #Git for diffs, you can just configure a &quot;diff.&lt;driver&gt;.textconv&quot; option to pipe the document into Pandoc and diff over that. I thought that was pretty cool. Maybe someone will find this useful?

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@alefunguju@mastodon.social 2025-04-24 13:40

Here's what the original document looks like, just for reference.

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@johanneskastl@digitalcourage.social 2025-04-24 16:19

@alefunguju @forgejo You used a gitattributes file? Or how did you configure this?

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@ostueker@mast.hpc.social 2025-04-24 19:47

FYI @gvwilson I seem to remember that you were musing about how to diff binary office documents with #git. @alefunguju

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@radicalabacus@hachyderm.io 2025-04-24 20:39

@alefunguju @forgejo great idea! I'll remember this next time someone insists on a non-diffable format for something; that's a really useful trick

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@astraluma@tacobelllabs.net 2025-04-25 18:34

@alefunguju @forgejo that's really cool! how hard is that to reproduce?

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@purpleidea@mastodon.social 2025-04-28 18:24

@alefunguju @forgejo neat! How stable is it in that if a new revision that is meant to only update one paragraph comes in does it show unrelated changes elsewhere due to say non-determinism in the format and conversion process?

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