GitHub for English Teachers

I apologize for offtopic-ness, but I have no idea what Mr. Jon Udell did to piss our censors off; apparently his website is banned in my country:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;1m9LX0C.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;1m9LX0C.png</a><p>I swear it&#x27;s so crazy the absolute random shit that gets banned here. Thank god for Tor, I guess, I was able to access the forbidden knowledge of...github?? brb about to create some social unrest.<p>----<p>Having read the article, I was curious how it could be utilized for everyday writing, tracking collaborations and stuff.<p>Maybe if you are doing editorial work, this could lead to controlling your workflow in a more cohesive way than docs? You have your text, I have my text, I don&#x27;t lose my workflow behind your red tags.

The author’s use of Git versus Google Docs’ version history (which I find is excellent for tracking and annotating collaborative changes across a document) hinges on his claim that GDocs history is too complicated. He does not substantiate this claim; indeed, his use of Git seems extremely convoluted and complicated relative to GDocs.

Meta: I haven&#x27;t thought about Jon since the days of BYTE Magazine:<p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Jon_Udell" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Jon_Udell</a><p>&gt; <i>I started at BYTE in 1988. During the pre-Web years, I wrote reviews and features for the magazine. In 1995 I switched into Web mode, created BYTE.com, and documented my progress in print and online.</i><p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jonudell.net" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jonudell.net</a>

This is interesting but I’m curious, how much use would something like this get?<p>Forget a paid product or any sort of licensing requirements:<p>If someone were to create a DocHub that treated docx files like txt files and had a plugin for word&#x2F;OpenOffice used a really nice interface on top of git and came up with a way to intelligently represent styling changes (which git doesn’t because it only deals in txt.)<p>Would this sorta tool get enough use to justify maintenance? This feels like a niche within a niche.