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Re:Show HN: Magistrate – Plaintext legal contracts for devel... by dctoedt on Monday January 31, 2022 @04:17PM (#30154519)
> The only version of the contract that matters is the most recent one, so we just need a way to track that.

Another lawyer here: This is correct. (To uniquely identify the most recent version, it's extremely helpful to hard-code the date and time into the file name and in a running header. EXAMPLE: "ABC-XYZ-NDA-markup-2022-01-31-1510-CST.docx" (or use UTC if dealing with other countries' time zones).

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Re:Show HN: Magistrate – Plaintext legal contracts for devel... by Aeolun on Monday January 31, 2022 @05:31PM (#30155636)
The moment you start doing this, git becomes the better solution, no?

If multiple parties are mailing word documents back and forth (even with date in title), it becomes crazy.

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Re:Show HN: Magistrate – Plaintext legal contracts for devel... by dctoedt on Monday January 31, 2022 @05:45PM (#30155802)
> The moment you start doing this, git becomes the better solution, no?

You think J. Random Lawyer is going to learn, and use, git? ROFLMAO — half the lawyers around don't even know how to use styles in Word, and they think the way to add spacing between paragraphs is to leave a blank line.

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Re:Show HN: Magistrate – Plaintext legal contracts for devel... by zie on Monday January 31, 2022 @09:27PM (#30157865)
+1, Many developers can barely use git.
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Re:Show HN: Magistrate – Plaintext legal contracts for devel... by LiquidSky on Monday January 31, 2022 @05:41PM (#30155751)
Nah, we do the same thing the parent does with file names. Works just fine.
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