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In principle, Git is meant for working together. If it’s right for your idea depends on how you want to work. In particular Git is good with plain text files (making it easy to see and merge different versions), not so great with binary data (including stuff like PDF or Word documents). So if you want to work on text documents with Git (definitely recommended), use plain text or plain text based markup languages like Markdown or LaTeX. 🙂

One thing to note is that Git is decentralized. With a group you are (usually) not working “on the same document”, instead everyone is working on their own version, and Git keeps track of the different versions and lets you merge them (turn them into a un…

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