Oh, that is a good idea! Well done Brian for making it happen! --Brad
On Sat, Dec 18, 2021 at 7:44 AM Bert Put <b...@bellsouth.net> wrote: > Thank you, Brian! > > The nice thing about cloning a git repo is that any recent copy of the > repo can be used to restore the original in case it gets lost or the > site goes down -- thus preserving the entire change log. > > Regards, Bert > > > On 12/17/21 11:48 PM, Brian K. White wrote: > > I got tired of running into simple fixable things and other update > > opportunities in the M100SIG, and having no good place to put them. > > > > https://github.com/bkw777/Living_M100SIG > > > > Similarly, having no good way to reference and link to individual files > > or directories. I was using archive.org's ability to link to files > > within a zip but it's still not that convenient, either for me or for > > the reader. > > > > The first example: A few months ago while working on creating a portable > > downloadable replacement for the cassette-only installer for Disk Power > > KC-85, I needed a CO2BA for K85 and there wasn't one. But I managed to > > port a version for 100 to K85. And then had no good place to put it. > > Ideally, it should go right there next to the 100 version. > > > > And there's no reason not to. The original M100SIG is of course a > > historical artifact by now, but it's contents were highly mutable and > > transient and casual right up until it was collected into that zip. It > > was all ongoing progress up to then. There is nothing especially final > > or perfect about 99% of the contents. It was just an arbitrary point in > > time when a service was shut down. > > > > I could just as easily have written this exact same little file in 1985 > > instead of 2021 and if I had, the file would have gone right there. (In > > fact I literally could have, since I was 15 and this wouldn't have been > > beyond my abilities at the time. I just didn't have a modem, or money > > for Compuserve, or a KC-85!) > > > > I rely on the front page readme and the by-now well understood basic > > nature of a revision control system to take care of documenting the > > difference between the original files and the new or modified files. > > > -- -- Brad Grier
