alt Hacker NewsThe obvious reason is that most file formats used by writers, accountants, etc. are binary files which do not very much benefit from git.
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aa-jv • today at 10:39 AM
So? Doesn't matter. Git in that case still provides valuable historical archiving and versioning that is still more useful than the option, without it.
Plus, its chicken and egg. If the OS had a great interface to Git as part of its responsibilities in the Explorer/Finder interface, folks would be more inclined to use text-based file format standards that are coherent with the Git methodology.
Microsoft Office files are zipped XML these days, there's a standard and everything.