> what is the advantage of Git over something like Dropbox Merging. People can work on the manuscript at the same time, and as long as they edited non-overlapp

> what is the advantage of Git over something like Dropbox Merging. People can work on the manuscript at the same time, and as long as they edited non-overlapping regions, git will merge both contributions silently and painlessly. Editing a word processor document stored in a shared Dropbox folder, I guess you'd need to inspect both new versions and do the merge manually?