People who don't live in the software world will never know how marvelous version control can be.
Git is just.... I thank Linus for it every day.
I really need to snapshot more often on personal one-person projects though.
[Restored so so many things from prior versions this week, when changes turned out to be so so wrong]
Even just on a personal project like that it's so so so damned useful.
In collaborative projects... What do journalists do? They just email word documents back and forward? They use a shared google-doc?
How do they version-control that?
Novelists? Script-writers? Why aren't they all using Git? Or are they?
Frankly the law ought to be under version-control.
Git is mind-openingly awesome to the collaborative process of building a shared document.
I want to fork the law, and put it under version control.
I forked the law: and the law won.
Because then it will be properly audited and version controlled and revertable and you can check the git history for when that stupid bug crept in or that dick deliberately ruined it.