how to share odt/doc documents over git

Question

the idea is that i want to share documents over git

i thought about using Text Document (looks like docx,odt in functionality ) that can be edited with any text editor (

Answer 1

There are two tools which can be used to let git diff odt files: odt2txt and oodiff.

See this resource for details on how to set this up (also includes information on Mercurial and SVN.)

Snippet of above instructions (for git >= 1.6.1):

• First, install odt2txt, and configure git to allow it to run it, by adding this to ~/.gitconfig:

  [diff "odf"]
        textconv=odt2txt
  

• Now, for each project, you just need to ask git to use this driver in .gitattributes or $GIT_DIR/info/attributes, like this:

  *.ods diff=odf
  *.odt diff=odf
  *.odp diff=odf