Flashbake Version Control for Creative Writers

Over the last few months my programmer self has gotten sucked into a full-on love affair with source version control system Git and a Git host, GitHub. Explaining Git to non-coder humans is almost impossible, but this morning I gave it a try. Over at Lifehacker my writer self reviewed Flashbake, scripts that offer writers automated version control using Git. What I love about Flashbake is that it automatically includes ambient information about the weather, your Twitter status, and what music you’ve been listening to into each version’s commit message, so you can reconstruct your entire creative process with full snapshots and a log of what you’d been doing and hearing at the time. Here’s the full story: Flashbake Automates Version Control for (Nerdy) Writers. (Here’s my writing repository at GitHub.)