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Re:Show HN: Version Control for Microsoft Word by aplaice on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @10:42AM (#14553061)
Slight aside (since LibreOffice != Word, and XML diffs are still horribly messy):

If you save your LibreOffice documents in flat XML format, (e.g. fods, fodt instead of ods, odt), placing them under version control becomes slightly less annoying — the diffs become at least _potentially_ human readable.

See also:

http://blog.riemann.cc/2013/04/23/versioning-of-openoffice-l...

https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/msg48067.h...

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Re:Show HN: Version Control for Microsoft Word by kairuku on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @12:20PM (#14553774)
Word can also save in flat XML format, but it's really verbose (really just a listing of all the document parts).
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Re:Show HN: Version Control for Microsoft Word by rubidium on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @12:57PM (#14554050)
And I can "build a car". But I wouldn't want to drive it.
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