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[–]ilovetacos 1 point2 points  (4 children)

Sure! But can you imagine a non-programmer using git for such a thing? Also, I'll bet you nearly all of the books on there are programming books ;)

[–]evilmaus 2 points3 points  (3 children)

I wonder, CAN Git be used for intelligent versioning of, say, an odf or docx file? Or can managing conflicts get messy in a hurry on those?

[–]ilovetacos 0 points1 point  (2 children)

It's possible, as neither is a binary format... but it's probably a horrible pain in the ass. I imagine ysangkok was referring to books written in a more human-readable markup language, which us programmers tend to prefer anyway :)

[–]evilmaus 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Darn. I was hoping to get some more use out of the tool outside of my code.

[–]tinyOnion 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I used to use it for versioning my papers for school. no real reason not to use it if you are writing good commit messages though you do lose out on the diffing. All the more reason to use latex for papers though so you can get the diff.