[Grammar] Another advantage of plain text is that it ..

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Zoli

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I would like to know if the following text sounds natural and if it's correct. It's tech related:

Another advantage of plain text is that it can be version-controlled with tools like Git, allowing me to keep track of my changes and if necessary, restore the file to a previous state.

Side note: Git is a computer program for managing files.
 
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Re: Another advantage of plain text is that i

I would use "version" instead of "state".
I like that someone thought to name a program Git. :lol:
 
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Re: Another advantage of plain text is that i

"State" is probably the correct word in this technical context.
 
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I would like to know if the following text sounds natural and if it's correct. It's tech-related:

Another advantage of plain text is that it can be version-controlled with tools like Git, allowing me to keep track of my changes and, if necessary, restore the file to a previous state.

Side note: Git is a computer program for managing files.

Note my addition of two punctuation marks above.
 

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State works for me here.
 
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