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On Building Git for Lawyers

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mtlynch ◴[] No.42137851[source]
Earlier this year, I worked on 60 pages of M&A contract documents with lawyers, and I found the change tracking in Word miserable. It's so difficult to see only the delta quickly, it's slow to go back through the history, and it's hard to discuss a change within the tool itself.

It felt crazy that there wasn't better tooling for this, but I also appreciate the difficulty of trying to get lawyers out of the MS Word workflow that they know.

Good luck to the team! I hope you're successful.

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1. rwmj ◴[] No.42138099[source]
I was tech editor on a book that used MS Word versioning. (One chapter per .docx because Word couldn't scale to anything longer). As you say, it was absolutely miserable.