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What I find incredible is that the LEGAL industry has yet to adopt any 'git' style repo to manage all the multi-touch contract edits. My gut tells me the simpl

What I find incredible is that the LEGAL industry has yet to adopt any 'git' style repo to manage all the multi-touch contract edits. My gut tells me the simple reason is because that would effectively make them lose most of their arcane billing hourly fees.

gbear605 7y ago
Many lawyers don’t work by the hour though, so what explains them?
- leovander 7y ago
  They bill in 6 minute increments, right?
  - gbear605 7y ago
    I was referring rather to corporate lawyers who are paid salaries rather than hourly rates.
Mathnerd314 7y ago
Word documents have extensive markup and revision tracking features, and then they're passed around within emails that function similarly to commits. Git is only really useful when you're doing simultaneous changes to a large number of files.
- gwright 7y ago
  In my experience Word's revision tracking is entirely inadequate to the task. I might take that back if everyone was editing a shared Word doc on Office365, but the typical scenario of emailing versions back and forth makes it very difficult to keep track of the current state of the document and ensure everyone is looking at the same thing. I don't think standard git with MS Word blobs would be better though. What I would like would be the conceptual structure of a git version history but with a commit viewer that could represent the commits in Word's revision control style as well as pull requests to track incremental agreements to change the document.
  - testvox 7y ago
    But would version control solve the email issue? I guess I would still rather get an email with a git repo or patch than I would a word document with a revision set.