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What's the most creative or unconventional use of Git you've encountered? (programming.dev)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

I used it once for version controlling my master's when I was writing it. I wrote it in Markdown with Pandoc syntax, so it worked. I eventually gave up and just used LibreOffice, though, since it was a hassle

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Was it the version controlling or writing in markdown part that was a hassle?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Both lol. The reason is that I had to render it to DOCX each time for my PI to review it, because she was an old retrograde woman. Therefore, rendering the document, committing changes and reading Git and Pandoc documentation took time -- the time that I could've used to write the actual thing