Diff setup for ~/.gitconfig, .gitattributes file for repository and helper scripts.

.gitattributes

*.ods diff=odf
*.odt diff=odf
*.odp diff=odf
*.pdf diff=pdf
*.PDF diff=pdf
*.apk diff=apk
*.bz2 diff=bz2
*.gz  diff=gzip
*.zip diff=zip
*.tar diff=tar
*.tgz diff=tar-gz
*.tar.gz  diff=tar-gz
*.tar.bz2 diff=tar-bz2

.gitconfig

[diff "odf"]
    textconv=odt2txt
[diff "pdf"]
    textconv=/usr/local/bin/pdftotext_git
[diff "apk"]
    textconv = /opt/android-sdk/build-tools/23.0.2/aapt dump badging
[diff "bz2"]
    binary = true
    textconv = /bin/bzcat
[diff "gzip"]
    binary = true
    textconv = /bin/zcat
[diff "tar"]
    binary = true
    textconv = tar --to-stdout -tvf
[diff "tar-gz"]
    binary = true
    textconv = tar --to-stdout -tvzf
[diff "tar-bz2"]
    binary = true
    textconv = tar --to-stdout -tvjf
[diff "zip"]
    binary = true
    textconv = unzip -v

pdftotext_git

#!/bin/bash

pdftotext -layout "$@" -