Is it possible to diff PowerPoint version-controlled with git?

Question

I have some PowerPoint documents that I keep version-controlled with git. I want to know what differences are between versions of a file. Text is most important, images and form

Answer 1

I can't speak directly to git as we use Visual Studio + TFS at work. However, a bit of research reveals this should work. What I do on VS is to integrate WinMerge and its plugin which supports a text comparison of MS Office and PDF files. This allows me to do diffs of pptx, docx, pdf, etc. files published to version control.

For git, the way it should work is:

1) Get WinMerge with the xdocdiff plugin: http://freemind.s57.xrea.com/xdocdiffPlugin/en/index.html 2) Integrate WinMerge with git: https://coderwall.com/p/76wmzq/winmerge-as-git-difftool-on-windows

Hopefully this will allow you to see the text-based diffs for your PowerPoint.