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That SO question led me to this blog: https://tante.cc/2010/06/23/managing-zip-based-file-formats-in-git/
Which suggested I make these changes to a couple of git files in my repo:
✗ cat .gitattributes
*.xlsx diff=zip
✗ cat .gitconfig
[diff "zip"]
textconv = unzip -c -a
But when I run a diff:
git diff data/localizations-us.xlsx
diff --git a/data/foo.xlsx b/data/foo.xlsx
index 11920cc..8b8f6d3 100644
Binary files a/data/foo.xlsx and b/data/foo.xlsx differ
This is not what I was looking for.
There is a tool called xls2txt that was suggested in that other question but it is a binary hosted on what appears to be a personal website; I'm reluctant to use it for security reasons. Also reluctant to put a probably completely unsupported tool into my development pipeline.
Is it possible to configure git to unzip xlsx files automatically and compare the resultant xml files?
