"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.
> 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.
It doesn't follow the published open spec so it is de facto proprietary.
Re:Write plain text files
by yjftsjthsd-h on Wednesday March 02, 2022 @02:06AM
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Right, 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.
Pre-commit hook to convert to plaintext or markdown[0].
And there you go, a human readable diff.
AIUI, git is already prepared to be that, it just needs diff programs that can handle whatever format. I mean, other than git's interface being its own impediment to non-technical users.