[Framers] ExtendScript for save as text, for Git usage ?

[Robert Lauriston]

Git does not support binary files. It assumes that all files under its
control are mergeable text.

I'd use something like git-annex or Git LFS for unstructured
FrameMaker and image binaries. (It's not currently an issue for me
since my doc source is in Confluence and the only files I put in Git
are those required by the build process.)

Do you really find it useful to diff MIF files very often?

On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 9:47 AM, Monique Semp <monique.semp at earthlink.net> wrote:
> I'm also using Git, and the option of having a plaintext version for Git
> compares sounds appealing. Can you elaborate on the process you're using,
> anything to look out for, and post the script?
>
> I can see great potential for this, but wonder whether extraneous info will
> clutter up a Git compare (I'm using the SourceTree GUI client on Windows,
> which has a good compare normally; and I also can use GitLab's compare on
> the server-side to see diffs), or whether relevant diffs might get lost due
> to formatting diffs or something?