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Prediction: in 10 years no "expert" will not be putting their work in Git. Git provides a zero cost (in time and money) way to share your full work with audibil
by breck 6y ago
Prediction: in 10 years no "expert" will not be putting their work in Git. Git provides a zero cost (in time and money) way to share your full work with audibility; where fixing mistakes continuously is expected and not something to be embarrassed about; where people can instantly clone to reproduce and test better ideas upon your work; where collaborating with proper attribution is done automatically, et cetera.
Look in any field—epidemiology, computer science, physics, chemistry, medicine, et cetera. If the leading experts aren't using git yet, look for the ones that are. They will be the leading experts of tomorrow.
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- jdsully 6y agoI like that prediction, but git is actually a bit of a step back from older more traditional source control systems. Rewriting history is far more common with git to the point where teams have to make explicit policies on when that is allowed. Even if git becomes common in science outside of code, I don't think it would overcome the social pressure to appear infallible.
- breck 6y ago> Rewriting history is far more common with git How do you mean? It's impossible. You git push something, and then you leave an immutable trail that someone somewhere may have cloned so even if you were to force push or delete you can't erase it. Assuming it was of any importance and someone was watching (but if not of any importance, then no big deal to force push/delete).
- 0xffff2 6y agoSaying something is immutable because someone may have saved an old copy before you mutated your own copy sounds very fragile to my ears.