> There's essentially nothing about Git's functionality that is specific to code. Git works with text-based file formats, which are very common outside of softw

> There's essentially nothing about Git's functionality that is specific to code. Git works with text-based file formats, which are very common outside of software engineering, and supports binary files as well. The problem is that it does only really work well for plain text. So office documents don't work, emails only kinda work (html; and anyways already handled by other apps) and for binary files it provides no real benefit. > could dramatically improve collaboration, still mostly default to sending versions of documents back and forth by email. What is the supposed benefit of git for this purpose over dropbox/owncloud/seafile...? For plain text the version history/branching etc are all useful. For binary files or office documents, git just seems much more work for no gain.