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[–] Randelung@lemmy.world 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.

[–] ornery_chemist@mander.xyz 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Randelung@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] ornery_chemist@mander.xyz 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.

[–] droans@lemmy.world 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.

[–] Randelung@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Easy, they want you to buy a onedrive subscription.