Oh, I understand and agree. I'm not trying to say that the current system of ad hoc "version control" is very good, let alone good enough. I'm just pushing bac

Oh, I understand and agree. I'm not trying to say that the current system of ad hoc "version control" is very good, let alone good enough. I'm just pushing back against this the argument that using a real version control system will create a P.R. problem. If the P.R. problem is going to happen, it's going to happen. The changes are public. People like you are reading them, copying and pasting them, emailing them to each other. I wouldn't be at all surprised if various political professionals are taking snapshots of the site on a weekly basis. There isn't even a security-through-obscurity argument to be made here, because the edits aren't all that obscure!