I mean, can I edit the times and the authors and create a history that I need with some software? Or did the author painstakingly go in and manually look up all the dates and make the commits? And then roll back for an error and just keep going?
The issue is how would you change a single commit from 8 commits ago if there was an error there?
And then how would you visualize the whole thing just to keep it straight in your head?
Here's a script doing the same thing but with another text [1].
In this case, we're storing each version as plain text files and then we make the git repo by compiling all of them.
> And then how would you visualize the whole thing just to keep it straight in your head ?
Like this for example [2].
[1]: https://github.com/regardscitoyens/historique_reglements_AN/...
[2]: https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050131/http://visualisie...
Rebase would be my first hunch. There's plenty of GUI based git editors, as long as it's all historically in order it's all fine and dandy.