alt Hacker News> Think of them as the composable building blocks of a domain specific language for manipulating text, one that can become a powerful tool in expressing yourself.
Writers are renown for ther love of coding domain specific languages!
They'd even trade such writing fundamentals like bold in nicely looking proportional fonts for that!
There's even a suggestion here advocating for changing how one writes prose in order to accommodate version control! But this is a solved problem from at least as early as the 1990s. Track changes! Don't use git to track versions of your novel.
Track changes, and label a specific part of your timeline as draft 1. Google Docs supports this. Scrivener (created specifically for writing novels) does this. Etc.
Why would I use git? It's designed for tracking changes to linted code.