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It started off a smug joke, but in all seriousness... git/github is the PERFECT tool to store legal documents. Pull requests have clear documented changes. Do

• Jtsummers 10y ago
  I agree. But it still has the problem of: They need to learn a new document markup (how well does word play with git for grabbing diffs?). They need to learn git/github. It needs to be secure (these are legal contracts, potentially containing detailed information that doesn't need to be out when it's in draft and not signed). This is fine, host your own git repos, but that's an additional technical cost to the company. It is, ultimately, still an ad hoc process. Is the cost of learning and adapting to this, to only gain the version controlled document store, sufficient to justify the process? Across an industry?
  • jolux 10y ago
    It probably wouldn't diff terribly but the markup used in .docx is extremely verbose and not really designed to be human writable the way say markdown is. Most users don't see formatting as markup, because as far as they can tell it's WYSIWYG and stored that way. The idea that content and style can even be separate is very foreign for lots of folks, let alone that the representation on disk is text without style.
    • zekevermillion 10y ago
      Ideally the markup would be limited to section numbering (need more levels of nesting than md or html offers) and definitions. Then once a contract is finalized you could apply fancy styles before printing a closing set.