You can absolutely put everything up in a git repo. Sourcing components and assembling units is an entirely separate issue from simply documenting the design.
The cad files, schematics, code, and general documentation and parts lists are all things that can be placed in git repos. People do it all the time. These days more and more people can do fabrication that used to be very specialized. If a part is hard to find, or hard to work with, users can contribute to the design by finding a different part and submitting changes to the design (or fork it) to use that different part. Or, they can document where to source a part, or what other part can drop in, etc. Let most users not be able to use the info directly, some CAN use it directly. The same is already true for every ordinary program in the world. Most people are no more C coders than they are smt fabricators. It's a total non-issue. -- bkw On Jan 9, 2017 8:26 PM, "John R. Hogerhuis" <jho...@pobox.com> wrote: > I think the only fundamental problem right now is availability, since > Steve has been busy with real life. Rex is not something you can just git > clone and make. Part of it could be, of course. > > Component ordering, fabrication, assembly, test, order taking, shipping is > the current issue. > > -- John. >
