How to track .docx files in git on Bitbucket?

Question

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Good afternoon. I would like to know if it is possible to somehow track .docx files in git on Bitbucket?
In git itself, I see commit diffs. But on Bitbucket, nothing is displayed in the commit history, only "Binary file added.".
Can this be fixed somehow?
Thank you.

Answer 1

Git does not track changes to binary files, and docx, like odt, is a zip archive.
I have a similar problem now and today I dug up about the flat xml format. This is a document in the same format as odt, but in one file and uncompressed. Libreoffis eats with pleasure. His git will track, but, of course, in a raw format - it will not be very convenient to watch diffs. And small-soft ones do not support this.

Answer 2

Locally, you can use the utilities:
https://github.com/costerwi/rezip
https://github.com/costerwi/zipdoc
https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/ZipdocExtension

Encode/decode filter for version controlling zipped document formats like docx or odt as uncompressed zip archives.