Totally agree with you on academia needing this. I know a bunch of people (including myself) who are interested in trying new ways of authoring papers, theses etc - whether it's MarkDown, latex etc. But once you need to collaborate with someone else, or even receive feedback etc (which as a grad student is pretty much always), we just end up back in Word.
I think building something on the backend of Git would be awesome. My prof is pretty computer savvy and open-minded, but I am not going to be able to get him to do a pull request for every change... and neither would I want to. You need to view the changes in-document, easily do comments etc. I'm looking forward to seeing people try to crack this nut!
I think building something on the backend of Git would be awesome. My prof is pretty computer savvy and open-minded, but I am not going to be able to get him to do a pull request for every change... and neither would I want to. You need to view the changes in-document, easily do comments etc. I'm looking forward to seeing people try to crack this nut!