So Google Docs? It seems close enough. What's the main advantage over Google Docs?
Google Docs is only online, I have to give my documents to Google and is quite thin in product features.
Show HN: Version Control for Microsoft Word
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Re: Show HN: Version Control for Microsoft Word
#12So Google Docs? It seems close enough. What's the main advantage over Google Docs?
Word is tons more powerful than Google Docs, has add-ins, way more formatting and styling. In my mind, Google Doc is not a direct competitor to Word when it comes to professional editing and writing.
Ideally, styling should have nothing to do with editing or writing. You're talking about print (or PDF/static image) publishing, I guess?
Re: Show HN: Version Control for Microsoft Word
#13Took me a while of reading here to realise, there's no git here. This is a seperate thing that cannot be integrated with your existing stuff, if you're already using Git. I'd like to have the option of Word documents in Git but I don't want a whole other system just for the special snowflake that is Word as I'm already using Git for managing LaTeX documents and doing that entirely on my own infra.
I don't think people who already use git and latex are the target audience for this.
Re: Show HN: Version Control for Microsoft Word
#14I've used git for word docs for years now. Using pandoc to convert them to markdown allows sensible diffs to be displayed as well. Works great for redlining.
Re: Show HN: Version Control for Microsoft Word
#15Took me a while of reading here to realise, there's no git here. This is a seperate thing that cannot be integrated with your existing stuff, if you're already using Git. I'd like to have the option of Word documents in Git but I don't want a whole other system just for the special snowflake that is Word as I'm already using Git for managing LaTeX documents and doing that entirely on my own infra.
Is that something people care about though?
I'm asking honestly as someone who was in this space several years ago, I'm not convinced that even if it was backed to git that would be a big enough lure to make people want to use it.
Please feel free to convince me I'm wrong :)...
Re: Show HN: Version Control for Microsoft Word
#16Took me a while of reading here to realise, there's no git here. This is a seperate thing that cannot be integrated with your existing stuff, if you're already using Git. I'd like to have the option of Word documents in Git but I don't want a whole other system just for the special snowflake that is Word as I'm already using Git for managing LaTeX documents and doing that entirely on my own infra.
I don't think people who already use git and latex are the target audience for this.
Then they shouldn't market based on it.
Re: Show HN: Version Control for Microsoft Word
#17If all you need is to diff documents (Word, Excel, PPT, or arbitrary PDFs) then I can't recommend https://draftable.com/compare enough. It's an amazing tool. Granted, you need to do merges manually with just a diff tool, but that's not usually the bottleneck.
Re: Show HN: Version Control for Microsoft Word
#18I tried doing something like this a couple of years ago by embedding an actual git repository inside a docx or ODF file. Unfortunately, most popular word processing suites back then trashed the git directory instead of leaving it alone (as they should, according to the standards)
Re: Show HN: Version Control for Microsoft Word
#19So Google Docs? It seems close enough. What's the main advantage over Google Docs?
Can't use Google Docs offline for one
Re: Show HN: Version Control for Microsoft Word
#20How big do you think the intersection is of people who can use git and people who want to use Microsoft Word?