Collection of useful diff tools for git

git-diff.md

Useful git diff tools

Overview

• Word: docx2txt (brew install docx2txt)
• Excel: xlsx2txt
• PDF: pdf2txt (brew install poppler)
• Images: exiftool (brew install exiftool)

Setup

~/.gitconfig

[core]
    attributesfile = ~/.config/git/attributes
[diff "word"]
    textconv = docx2txt
[diff "excel"]
    binary = true
    textconv = xlsx2txt
[diff "pdf"]
	textconv = pdf2txt
[diff "exif"]
    textconv = exiftool

~/.config/git/attributes

*.docx diff=word
*.xlsx diff=excel
*.pdf diff=pdf
*.png diff=exif
*.jpg diff=exif