c/emacs · by howardthegeek@lemmy.world · 223d

Using Git to be a Better Writer

https://chrismaiorana.com/modeline-hacking-git/

Interesting quote:

I use commits as a way of measuring “thought units.” I estimate that I need about 10-12 commits per thousands words of finished prose to know I’ve really put sufficient thought into a piece of writing. A commit will generally encompass ~250-300 words changed.

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Zachariah@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 223d

https://craphound.com/news/2009/02/13/flashbake-free-version-control-for-writers-using-git/

FEBRUARY 13, 2009 / CORY DOCTOROW

For the past couple weeks, I’ve been working with Thomas “cmdln” Gideon (host of the fabulously nerdy Command Line podcast) on a free software project for writers called “Flashbake.” This is a set of Python scripts that check your hot files for changes every 15 minutes, and checks in any changed files to a local git repository. Git is a free “source control” program used by programmers to track changes to source-code, but it works equally well on any text file. If you write in a text-editor like I do, then Flashbake can keep track of your changes for you as you go.

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