Nice surprise – Tortoise-Git Word Document Diff

Today I discovered a pretty neat feature of Git (in combination with Tortoise-Git)…

If you’re about to commit changes and those changes include a Microsoft Word document (*.docx), when you open up your diff tool it will instead open up Word in “merge documents” mode to show the differences.  When it first happened I wasn’t sure whether it was Beyond Compare or Git doing it but after this search result (link below) I confirmed that it is indeed a feature of the Git Diff Tool.

http://xcafebabe.blogspot.com/2012/09/sexy-comparison-of-word-documents-with.html

BTW, I’ll take this opportunity to mention how well it all works with Scooter Software’s Beyond Compare thrown into the mix. 🙂