[gigelu]

This is interesting, but what's wrong with "Track Changes"? (a feature Word had for at least 10+ years now). I believe for most people that is more than enough for version control purposes. For tech people that actually know what Git is and how to use it, I bet they'd want real Git integration, or they'd choose to store the document in a different (more easily managed by Git) format such as .md or .html.

[rayiner]

It doesn't scale. E.g. a common operation in a law firm is to send a draft of a Word document,[1] to several people for revisions and comments. You get back several redlines against a common version that some junior associate then has to integrate manually.

[1] It has to be a word document for integration with tooling that does stuff like generating tables of authorities and whatnot.

[TickleSteve]

the built-in 3-way merge tool will do that... just set it up to be called from your favourite VCS.

[jfoutz]

    z:\presentation\2017\Skyscraper.doc
    z:\presentation\2017\Skyscraper.doc.final
    z:\presentation\2017\Skyscraper.doc.final.legal_edits
    z:\presentation\2017\Skyscraper.doc.final2

[WhiteOwlLion]

Couldn't you use pandoc to convert Word doc to a git friendlier format for comparison?

[beagle3]

But then you still have to do all the editing manually in Word (unless the pandoc if perfectly convertible back to Word, which it is not).