What do you use for storyline file Version control tools? Git?

Hey everyone,

In our organization, we often have more than one person needing to edit a storyline file. It's becoming a version control nightmare. I thought git might work as a version control system forcing user to check out/in files when they are going to work on them. My boss thinks git would not be right for this purpose.

We are currently just using the honor system and trying to force everyone to append the current date in their file names (e.g. myfile_04022026.story), but not everyone does and it's a huge problem. We really need a tool for this instead. 

How do you all manage this? What tools have you found that work well? What tools have been a disaster for this? 

All advice welcome!

Thanks,

 Lori