specifying diff tool for rtf files

[Matt Mackall]

On Mon, 2012-11-26 at 16:39 +0000, Haszlakiewicz, Eric wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Matt Mackall [mailto:mpm at selenic.com]
> > 
> > On Fri, 2012-11-16 at 17:51 +0000, Haszlakiewicz, Eric wrote:
> > > Is there a way to specify which diff tool to use for certain files?
> > 
> > No. Note that diff serves two somewhat conflicting purposes:
> > 
> > - compatibility with patch
> > - human readability (strictly secondary)
> > 
> > ..so format-awareness is off the table. However:
> 
> Why does compatibility with patch preclude format awareness?  It's not
> like the default output does anything useful for binary files ("Binary
> file foo.doc has changed") so it's already incompatible with patch.

Consider an xmldiff tool. Normal diff would create a diff that patch(1)
accepted, "smart" format-aware tool would not.

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