Allow me to be off topic and rant about git here for a hot second. It is not as off topic as you'd think.
It has been proven again and again, over thousands of year but especially recently that the real valuable data is often in the raw notes of a research and not the published material. git allows you, very easily, to destroy history just to make the log prettier later. Instead, it should allow you to construct a hierarchy of logs and hide the nonimportant details but allow it to be shown later. Similarly, git reset --hard should not throw away work, that's criminal https://gist.github.com/chx/85db0ebed1e02ab14b1a65b6024dea29 fixes it but bah.
Back to topic: when there are hundreds of thousands of public posts, the mind boggles you are asking whether there's any value to it. There's no question some of it is valueable. I do not know how to impress this mindset where losing information created by people is henious, unthinkable.
It has been proven again and again, over thousands of year but especially recently that the real valuable data is often in the raw notes of a research and not the published material. git allows you, very easily, to destroy history just to make the log prettier later. Instead, it should allow you to construct a hierarchy of logs and hide the nonimportant details but allow it to be shown later. Similarly, git reset --hard should not throw away work, that's criminal https://gist.github.com/chx/85db0ebed1e02ab14b1a65b6024dea29 fixes it but bah.
Back to topic: when there are hundreds of thousands of public posts, the mind boggles you are asking whether there's any value to it. There's no question some of it is valueable. I do not know how to impress this mindset where losing information created by people is henious, unthinkable.