On Building Git for Lawyers

>Why don't lawyers and other non-coders use git?

Git is a tool built around the needs of software developers. Because git is too complicated and branching, though in principle, would make sense in some situations, is actually pretty difficult to manage (especially for binary documents).

Also, they do use version history built into tools like Sharepoint/Office, or the document itself.

How many developers use git? I'd bet there's a huge number of developers out there at non-tech companies who get by with numbered folders and emailing zip archives around.

Oh god, reminds me of the time I was working in consulting and dealing with web developers at small marketing companies. They never used version control. You'd often get them to fix one thing, fix a second thing, and find the first thing had been reverted back to its original broken state.

To be fair, looking at a word doc with tracked changes enabled that has gone through a few rounds with more than a couple people in my Legal dept makes me feel like my brain is melting.

More specifically it’s built around the needs of Linux software developers.