On Tue, Apr 07, 2015 at 08:55:11AM -0400, Randall S. Becker wrote: > There was a discussion a while back on how to manage EXCEL content in git. > This involved a simple trick of modifying the file extension from .xlsx to > .zip and unpacking the file - resulting in a whole bunch of XML files. Git > is happy with that part and the content can be managed - slightly. > > Unfortunately, EXCEL stores its XML content in single lines. Git has no > problem with that either, as far as managing the content, but the lines can > be really long. However, after about 20K in size, while the config: > > alias.wdiff=diff --color-words > > The ability of git to report differences goes away - as in no output from > git diff. This occurs on Windows and Linux under git 2.3.3 and git 2.3.0. > I'm not sure whether this is a user error, a usage error, or an actual > problem. > > I had originally raised this as a SourceTree problem figuring it might be > there: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/SRCTREEWIN-3145 > > Any advice (preferably no teasing - :-) - I am considering smudging but > would rather avoid that)?
Perhaps try defining a specific diff driver for these files (see git-attributes(5)). There is an xmldiff program [0] that might be able to generate more useful diffs. [0] http://www.logilab.org/project/xmldiff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
