Our research group uses it for software, hardware designs, design documents, shared development of papers in latex, photo archives, research data archives, pres

Our research group uses it for software, hardware designs, design documents, shared development of papers in latex, photo archives, research data archives, presentation slide archives, poster archives, snapshots of software repos we rely on (especially when we don't want to deal with version changes), and as a way to collaborate with remote groups (without having to give them access to our institution network.)