Using Microsoft Word with Git

Do the following to have Pandoc convert Word documents into markdown, and to compare the revisions by word and not by line (which makes more sense):You can then use git wdiff important_file.docx to see the changes (with deletions in red and insertions in green), or git log -p --word-diff=color important_file.docx to see all changes over time.While you can now track revisions of a Word document and see the changes, you also want to be able to merge different versions of a Word document together so that you and your collaborators can work on the manuscript in parallel. Instead of working on the master version directly, you would use Pandoc to convert back and forth between this master version in markdown format and your Word document, and would continue to use Word as authoring tool.