====== diff ====== === Word and LibreOffice documents === Trick is to convert document into text files and make diff on it. sudo apt-get install odt2txt docx2txt git config --global diff.odf.textconv "odt2txt" git config --global diff.word.textconv "docx2txt" Create file ''**~/.config/git/attributes**'' and put following lines into it: *.ods diff=odf *.odt diff=odf *.odp diff=odf *.docx diff=word Test if it working. Go to your git repository working copy: git log -p some_document.odt Instead of Binary files a/some_document.odt and b/some_document.odt differ you should see normal text diff.