Why aren't more things using source version control?
-
Why aren't more things using source version control?
Sitting in on a committee meeting, discussing bylaw changes. Work is all being done in a shared Office 365 document covered in comments.
Can't help thinking that our bylaws would work so much better as a git repo. I wanna "git blame" stuff and see some comments on a pull request!
-
Maybe it doesn't make sense to run an organization through git, but the alternatives are ghastly.
Right now, if you wanted to know the history of my organization's bylaws, you'd just have to download historic versions and compare them yourelf, if you can even find them. Or else you'd have to find a current or past board member who was in the room.
It feels really antithetical to transparency.
-
@jcarlson The problem is that git is too complicated. Even lots of professional programmers who use it every day say they barely know how it works.
I've tried teaching regular people to use git. Maybe I'm just a bad teacher, who knows. But it was a suicide mission. Git just assumes you come in with a certain level of technical expertise, and if you don't have that, you're sunk.
What the world needs is something like git, but radically simplified. Throw out 90% of the power and just focus on the core workflow: checking out, branching, committing. Make it GUI-first. Nail the most common case.