Git for other purposes

Re:Git for other purposes by adriand on Friday June 25, 2010 @07:49PM (#1462631)

I use git for most of my writing (blog posts, content for my company's website, notes from meetings, journal entries about my kids, etc.) as well as for source code. Sort of a light-weight dropbox, with version control.

I've sometimes wondered (and perhaps this already exists, I've just never googled it) whether it would be useful to have a type of legal document that uses a markup suitable for revision tracking and version control. I find it's hard to be completely sure before signing a long legal document whether the version I've just received is precisely the same as the one my lawyer has reviewed.

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Re:Git for other purposes by koenigdavidmj on Friday June 25, 2010 @10:32PM (#1462929)

It does not fulfill your needs exactly, but it may be a start: http://www.gnu.org/software/wdiff/

I seem to remember a tutorial on setting that up with git, but Google is failing me right now; does anyone know where that might be?

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Re:Git for other purposes by js2 on Saturday June 26, 2010 @12:30AM (#1463107)

Um, git diff --color-words?

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Re:Git for other purposes by ben_straub on Saturday June 26, 2010 @03:05PM (#1464100)

MS Word has a diffing feature. I'm not sure how to trigger it from the UI, but my current source control system activates it when you diff two versions of the same Word doc.

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Re:Git for other purposes by mkramlich on Friday June 25, 2010 @10:42PM (#1462948)

git/GitHub plus DropBox is like chocolate plus peanut butter

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Re:Git for other purposes by malkia on Saturday June 26, 2010 @04:39AM (#1463356)

I hate peanut butter, does that make the analogy wrong?

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