On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 1:33 PM, Corey A Harper <[log in to unmask]> 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