Git is actually great for text (code is just text after all), it's just a matter of a better display for the diffs. Might want to have a look at a project I'm

Git is actually great for text (code is just text after all), it's just a matter of a better display for the diffs. Might want to have a look at a project I'm working on, Penflip [1], which does exactly this. It uses Git to track changes in markdown files, and has a web interface like GitHub but geared towards writers instead of developers. The in-browser editing interface is a fork of http://prose.io/ http://prose.io/, which allows for git commits (and other actions) from the browser. [1] https://www.penflip.com/ https://www.penflip.com/