Git is like shit for Word documents

But better for LaTeX

and then there are fucking PIs insisting on word files who never heard of tracked charges let alone of file naming conventions.

I dunno what a PI is, but my honours thesis supervisor was the person who first introduced me to TeX. And gods, I wish I had known about it earlier in uni, or even back in high school. It is so useful when writing any sort of papers with sections and diagrams and bibliography.

Principal Investigator. It’s the lead scientist in charge of the project.