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Out of curiosity, do you use any specific version control features when writing like this outside of history which is just kind of there by default? It would be hilarious but amazing if you said your editors (if you have any) give you feedback in the form of pull requests.

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Yeah that would be awesome but sadly they'd just be confused and annoyed by it all. I mean in my writing communities I'm the only one that uses Git, Linux, and MD. Everyone else just sticks with Google Docs, Word, or some more specialized writing apps.

I sometimes use Git branches to explore different story ideas but I mostly just use the system for basic versioning and history. I also use Git for written roleplays to store my logs and thoughts, and since MD is basically text I can use Unix tools like grep and wc.

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