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Could be! The article itself is open source, too:

https://github.com/WiredEnterprise/Lord-of-the-Files

I wish all technical books did this.

The gold standard might be the way Mark Pilgrim wrote Dive Into HTML5.

"... I wish all technical books did this. ..."

Why limit this to technical articles? Why not any written document? The key point, non-tech editors and writers are not going to use the clumsy tools github provides. They might use an editor that hides the mechanics of github.

That is amazing. 17 outstanding pull requests =)

I think so, I'm keeping an eye on https://github.com/WiredEnterprise/Lord-of-the-Files/pulls to see if they're getting merged. Pretty cool they hosted it there!

Yup, they're commenting on the incoming pull requests and looks like they will be accepting some. Curious to see if the original article will be updated with them!

They have things completely backwards. Github didn't make coding more decentralized, Git did. Github made it more centralized, though in a mostly non-binding way thanks to Git.

Noticed a few too. Like the fact that Scott Chacon wrote a book on Pro Git, not GitHub itself (maybe that's in the works).