I'm Building a GitHub for Writers

Re: I'm Building a GitHub for Writers by guynamedloren on Thursday August 29, 2013 @12:57PM (#6296942)

> In fact, if there are ways to visually simplify git and make it more intuitive for non-programmers, those techniques could wind up making git even better for programmers too.

That's the goal. I want git to handle everything behind the scenes, and everything that the user touches just 'makes sense' - ie its not all that different from what they're already doing. A 'save' button makes a git commit, editing somebody else's content automatically creates a new branch, 'submitting' that content on the new branch creates a pull request .. etc.

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Re: I'm Building a GitHub for Writers by dylangs1030 on Friday August 30, 2013 @12:05AM (#6300211)

You could combine the advantages of git versioning with wiki style collaboration and make a git-wiki like the parent said, but for writers.

Wikipedia is largely prose, but of a nonfiction variety. This would be a good intersection for git, which was born out of code.

You could call it..."geeky"...too bad it wouldn't be for geeks.

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Re: I'm Building a GitHub for Writers by terrycb on Friday August 30, 2013 @01:38AM (#6300433)

This is a really fantastic idea. I can also imagine writers will get a great deal of use out of git cherry pick.

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