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(author of the post here) Dropbox et al all solve the fundamentals quite well. And yes, sure OpenBSD etc all got built pre-git. The thing I'm trying to highli
by jdwyah 12y ago
(author of the post here)
Dropbox et al all solve the fundamentals quite well. And yes, sure OpenBSD etc all got built pre-git.
The thing I'm trying to highlight is the cultural effects of something like GitHub on how organizations function. When you can subscribe to user commit histories, and pull requests comments are built in I do think something 'magic' happens that leads to a solution much greater than its constituent parts (versioning/branching/network-shares/etc).
A public, recorded, specific conversation emerges out of GitHub that I think is simply different from what's come before it.
For businesses in particular I think the move to distributed information will necessitate moving away from the concept of Docs & PPT that currently form the backbone of communication. Smaller components of thought work better in a DVCS and I think businesses will want to conform to that model.
- dalke 12y agoYour thoughts may be true, but the scenarios you gave didn't explain how subscribing to user commit histories and pull requests comments connect to evaluating a P&L, changing the marketing and communications theme, or editing sales documents. Instead, you require a migration to an entirely different system (which you haven't described) without MS Word documents and Powerpoint presentations in order to achieve that magic. How much time will it be until a DVCS-assisted document editor can manage the fine-grained UI presentation of something like MS's "Track Changes" for Word?