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Your docs belong in Git, not a wiki — here's why
💡 Docs-as-code keeps documentation in version control alongside the code, so it's reviewed, versioned, and updated in the same commits as the software it describes.
Most teams treat documentation as a separate world: a wiki, a shared doc, a knowledge base that lives far from the code it describes. Docs-as-code flips that. It means writing docs in plain-text formats like Markdown, storing them in the same version control repository as the source code, and shipping them through the same review and automation pipeline.
The payoff is that documentation inherits every good habit developers already have. Changes go through pull requests, so a teammate reviews your wording the same way they'd review a function. Every edit has a history, so you can see who changed an install step and when. Best of all, a code change and its matching doc update can travel in the same commit — making it far harder for docs to silently drift out of date.
This also unlocks CI checks for docs: automated jobs can catch broken links, test that code samples still run, and rebuild the published site on every merge. The doc stops being a stale afterthought in a forgotten wiki and becomes a living part of the product that fails loudly when it breaks — just like code.