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Git in the browser is exactly what we need to bring git outside programming circles.

What I've wanted for a while is a site where I could fork somebody's muffin recipe, fix stuff and so on ... I've even considered building a site like that, but how many people who cook are also handy enough with a console to make that viable? My guess is not many.

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The Setup Interview with Jonas M. Luster [0]:

  I know I am not the only one but there aren't many
  chefs who keep all their recipes in hand-written XML
  checked into a Git repository and run XQuery queries
  over it for Christmas dinner menu ideas.

[0] http://jonas.m.luster.usesthis.com/

Hahah, recipes are actually a very interesting application. A program is much like a recipe, after all. I could see a collaborative site where you build up a personal cookbook by forking and trying out other peoples' stuff and contributing your own modifications, etc.

If you think recipes are like code, you should look at knitting patterns sometime. It looks like assembly code to me.

I have a grandmother who can debug knitting patterns.

The patterns in the books are, apparently, sometimes wrong somehow. She debugs them when she knits.

I can only imagine every competent knitter can, if only because those books must sell to a huge number of them.

Fork a recipe, pun intended? ;)

Edit: call it gitmeafork.com! (sorry for the bad joke!)

That's a brilliant joke.

I'm looking to make a simple Gist like application that tracks revision history as well. It's for a specific use case, but I'm sure it could apply in other places as well.

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