Re: Git weakness (was Re: Email (was Re: Next steps towards a net zero IETF))

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On 4/10/23 15:22, Salz, Rich wrote:
>> The reason why I do not think that using Git for that as a good idea is that there is no such validation after applying a commit for an informal text (English in our case), and so plenty of inconsistencies can be introduced by a commit. 
> 
> Have you done this or seen it in action, or is this just a theory?

I saw that, without Git.  I believe that using Git exacerbates that problem, although I do not have examples (hence my suggestion that it would be something useful to analyze), mostly because I refuse to use GitHub for anything I author (but not Git).

> 
>> And that's without even talking about the fact that the "discussions" on GitHub are not AFAIK archived AFAIK by the IETF, and thus an easy way to shove a technology covered by a submarine patent in an RFC. At least email-based reviews are available forever in the IETF archives.
> 
> The GitHub archives that the IETF makes include archives of the issues and PR's, courtesy of Martin's tooling.
> 

Hmm, how do I download that with rsync?

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