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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.

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ornery_chemist@mander.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Preaching to the choir. “But Box already supports ‘versioning’, why use a confusing hacker tool instead?”

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- Randelung@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  oh I see, you have a shared drive. i assumed you send it around as emails.
  
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  - ornery_chemist@mander.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    A fine assumption. Unfortunately, we did both depending on what he felt like at the time. Yes, for the same doc.
    
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droans@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
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.

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- Randelung@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Easy, they want you to buy a onedrive subscription.
  
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