WorldMaker/musdex
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musdex is a VCS-aware zip archive tool
6 mentions on Hacker News by 1 person: 0 stories, 6 comments · first 2017-03-29 · latest 2026-01-22
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…least for a programmer even ugly XML and JSON diffs were still nice to have over binary diffs. [1] https://github.com/WorldMaker/musdex
comment by WorldMaker · 2026-01-22 · in Lix – universal version control system for binary files -
I built a similar tool in Python years back: https://github.com/WorldMaker/musdex https://pythonhosted.org/musdex/ Because I built it to be extensible/support plugins I've used it for all sorts of interesting file types beyond DOCX too.…
comment by WorldMaker · 2020-08-28 · in Using Microsoft Word with Git -
…was automating the zip/unzip process (and some cleanup steps) pre-commit and post-checkout. https://github.com/WorldMaker/musdex Though also specifically for Word files your best bet might be to launch Word's own compare-files GUI tools as…
comment by WorldMaker · 2020-04-13 · in I Want Decentralized Version Control for Structured Data -
…when things are even slightly wrong), but you get better diffs sometimes than you would expect. [1] https://github.com/WorldMaker/musdex
comment by WorldMaker · 2020-01-07 · in Is Git Irreplaceable? (2019) -
…but never finished a Handler for deconstructing/reconstructing SQLite DBs for version control.) [1] https://github.com/WorldMaker/musdex
comment by WorldMaker · 2017-12-04 · in Using Git hooks to version-control Excel VBA Code -
…diffs like. That format handler is written as a plugin to a venerable tool I wrote called musdex: https://github.com/WorldMaker/musdex I wrote that to better source control zip files as the contents of their zip rather than a binary blob,…
comment by WorldMaker · 2017-03-29 · in Making a good diff algorithm