Just outright doesn't work at all

[Gaibhne]

I added an Excel file, committed, made some changes, committed again and used git diff, and it shows nothing about the change at all (but does detect that there is a change):

C:\Users\Me\Documents\Stuff>git diff 13e4f32..3fc2f84
diff --xl a/Finanzen_010.xlsx b/Finanzen_010.xlsx

No further output is generated. I tried all the various advised ways of installing (locally, globally, with install xl and install xltrail), the given git xl install seemed to work fine, at least it reported no errors, and I am guessing that output with diff --xl shows that it is working behind the scenes, just not generating any output.

[Gaibhne]

After some further research, the output seems to be affected by having something that provides a diff executable installed, so I suspect git-xl somehow depends on having a particular other software installed that provides that. My Windows did not come with any diff installed, and calling diff manually results in 'diff' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file..

If that is the case, it would be helpful if the install page mentioned needing to have another software installed.

[fzumstein]

it only diffs VBA code.

[Gaibhne]

🤦‍♂️ sorry