I previously wrote about how to get a useful diff for binary Excel files that reside in a Git repository.

This post adds some details that are big enough to deserve a separate post. They are:

• User-level configuration of Excel diffing.
• How to get an Excel diff from git show …

In this post, I’m going to demonstrate how to get a useful diff for binary Excel files that reside in a Git repository. I assume that you’re familiar with Git, and in that case you know that having binary files in a repository is generally not a good …