How can I leverage Version Control to help manage my photo collection? [closed]

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I want to be able to reference all previous edition of a digital photo (raw, touched, retouched, cropped, etc).

How can I leverage a VCS for this activity?

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Basically you don't: a VCS isn't the right tool for this kind of artifact, mainly because the main features it has won't fit said artifacts: historization and diff. There is no efficient notion of delta between versions.
(As mentioned on other questions)

Binaries (like your photos) can still make sense in a VCS, for release management and deployment purpose (as I mention in "Alternative to binaries in Subversion").
But that is clearly not your case here.

Regarding photos specifically, I would recommend an external open platform actually built to manage the kind of metadata you are mentioning: See openphoto, and the interview done by Robert Scoble for more.
You can build your own server by cloning their frontend on GitHub.