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

If you happen to use a Mac, I wrote a git merge driver that can use Microsoft Word and tracked changes to merge and show conflicts between any file types Word can read & write.

http://github.com/jasmas/wordMerge

I say 'if you happen to use a Mac' because the driver I wrote uses AppleScript, primarily to accomplish this task.

It'd be nice to add a vbscript version to the project, but at the moment I don't have a Windows environment for testing. Anyone with some basic scripting knowledge should be able to take a look at what I'm doing and duplicate it in vbscript, powershell or whatever on Windows.