[burritofanatic]

Excellent! People writing important papers really should be using Git. When documents are extremely complex, previously removed portions can have pertinence later.

[irremediable]

Seconded -- at least for anyone using LaTeX or another git-friendly format. I used git for my masters dissertation recently, and it was very useful to be able to checkout old versions and compare them with its then-current state.

[Fomite]

This doesn't work particularly well for fields not using LaTeX as their document creation tool.

[dovel]

Why is that?

[jaredsohn]

I would think the GP means that git works much better if you are creating a document in a non-binary format (of which LaTeX is one example.)