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submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago (2 children)

you can still use word with git. it's versioning first, diffing and merging only where possible. since you probably won't branch you won't need the latter, though.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Preaching to the choir. "But Box already supports 'versioning', why use a confusing hacker tool instead?"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

oh I see, you have a shared drive. i assumed you send it around as emails.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

A fine assumption given what I wrote. Unfortunately, we did both depending on what he felt like at the time. Yes, for the same doc.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Missing diffs is a problem, though.

I don't get how Microsoft owns GitHub yet hasn't figured out any way to actually create a spec that would be git compatible for Excel, Word, and PowerPoint files yet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Easy, they want you to buy a onedrive subscription.