Version control for DOCX and PDF?

Question

I\'ve been playing around with git and hg lately and then suddenly it occurred to me that this kind of thing will be great for documents.

I\'ve

Answer 1

Only for docx, I compiled instructions for multiple places here: https://gist.github.com/nachocab/6429893

# download docx2txt by Sandeep Kumar
wget -O docx2txt.pl http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~kinzler/home/binp/docx2txt

# make a wrapper 
echo '#!/bin/bash
docx2txt.pl $1 -' > docx2txt
chmod +x docx2txt

# make sure docx2txt.pl and docx2txt are your current PATH. Here's a guide
http://shapeshed.com/using_custom_shell_scripts_on_osx_or_linux/
mv docx2txt docx2txt.pl ~/bin/

# set .gitattributes (unfortunately I don't this can't be set by default, you have to create it for every project)
echo "*.docx diff=word" > .git/info/attributes

# add the following to ~/.gitconfig
[diff "word"]
    binary = true
    textconv = docx2txt

# add a new alias
[alias]
    wdiff = diff --color-words

# try it
git init

# create my_file.docx, add some content

git add my_file.docx

git commit -m "Initial commit"

# change something in my_file.docx

git wdiff my_file.docx

# awesome!

It works great on OSX