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