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by gamblor956 2433 days ago
You don't have a set of documents. You just have the one document...

It's almost like you guys are deliberately ignoring all the lawyers with actual transactional experience to create hypothetical problems that don't exist in the real world so you can suggest version control as a solution.

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No I realize the circumstances are different (like fewer documents in a process) but some times you don’t notice how your tools actually change your processes.

E.g: if you are in a process when there would naturally be two separate documents it may be that you are creating a single document becuse with the single document the change process works with the tooling.

Or is there something else inherent to the process that says a process/negotiation always includes one document?

I’m not sold on version control either - especially as structured text like word processors have such poor support - but it seems even change tracking in word documents should be able to track and show the differences in a set of documents such as a directory. I’m not arguing those tracking 3 word docs should use git.