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

I used SVN (yes, in 2020 :-)) with TortoiseSVN on Windows. It has a built-in function to compare DOCX files (it opens Microsoft Word in a mode where your screen is divided into four parts: the file after the changes, before the changes, with changes highlighted and a list of changes). Screenshot below (sorry for the Polish version of MS Word). I also checked TortoiseGIT and it also has this functionality. I've read that TortoiseHG has it as well.