|<- [[get:About distributed version control]]|[[get:Installing Git on a Mac]] ->|

  - anyone wanting to track edits
    - review a history log of change made
    - view differences betwwen versions
    - retrieve old versions
  - anyone needing to share changes with collaborators
  - anyone not afraid of command-line tools
  - programmers and developers
  - not as useful for tracking non-text files
    - images, movies, music, fonts
    - word processing files, spreadsheets (seulement ceux de formats débiles genre doc, docx, xls ?), pdfs