Author here. You're right that I'm a Git beginner. I don't want to hack up my own distributed version control system that fails in interesting ways :) And yes

Author here. You're right that I'm a Git beginner. I don't want to hack up my own distributed version control system that fails in interesting ways :) And yes, I do put my Git workspaces in Google Drive, but that doesn't address many of the limitations in the post. Github's inline edit mode is exactly the kind of affordances we need. When I needed to make a simple change to my open-source project (adding comments to document assumptions), I didn't want to mess with downloading, resolving conflicts, merging and pushing. Regarding your point that this doesn't belong in a version control system (a point that other people made on this HN post) but in extensions, I want an integrated environment. I don't want to investigate extensions and hooks and scripts to make things work together. I want it to be seamless. Just like IDEs are different from text editors (and upset some old-school programmers that "XYZ shouldn't be in a text editor"), I'm advocating a new style of version control system that does more.