On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 1:33 PM, Corey A Harper <corey.harper_at_nyu.edu> wrote:
> I think there's a useful distinction here. Ed can correct me if I'm
> wrong, but I suspect he was not actually suggesting that Git itself be
> the user-interface to a github-for-data type service, but rather that
> such a service can be built *on top* of an infrastructure component
> like GitHub.
Yes, I wasn't saying that we could just plonk our data into Github,
and pat ourselves on the back for a good days work :-) I guess I was
stating the obvious: technologies like Git have made once hard
problems like decentralized version control much, much easier...and
there might be some giants shoulders to stand on.
//Ed
Received on Mon Aug 27 2012 - 14:21:34 EDT