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On Building Git for Lawyers

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apozem ◴[] No.42138365[source]
This person is 100% correct that git will never see adoption outside the tech industry.

My partner worked as a veterinarian for several years, and it was fascinating to see how vets use computers. These were brilliant people - I knew three who did literal brain surgery. But they just had zero patience for computers. They did not want to troubleshoot, figure out how something worked or dive deeper. Ever. They didn't care! They were busy saving the lives of people's pets.

It was a good reminder there are many smart people who do not know computers work and do not care to. A good startup acknowledges this reality.

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1. bigfatkitten ◴[] No.42159805[source]
> This person is 100% correct that git will never see adoption outside the tech industry

And nor should it. The workflow is awful for anything but software development (and even on that, views differ). It is unsuitable for versioning binary blobs. It contains dozens of footguns that routinely catch out software engineers who use it all day, every day.