Mark Litwintschik • 8/24/2021

Track changes in Excel, Word, PowerPoint, PDFs, Images & Videos with Git

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This technical guide explains how to configure Git to track changes in binary files such as Microsoft Office documents (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), PDFs, images, and videos. It details setting up custom diff drivers using tools like Pandoc and ExifTool to extract text or metadata, enabling meaningful version control comparisons for typically opaque file formats.

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