[tomjen3]

>Very very few people can start from the abstraction and get TO a literate outcome without a lot of false steps along the way.

But don't writers face the same issue with their text? Am I the only one who writes more code than what ends up in a PR? Isn't that exactly what the Git history is for?

[ggm]

Sure. So how many published works do we ever see the git logs for? Significant literary works, one or two per author, pre digital era. Galley proofs, or Marcel Prousts chaotic revisions which G Scott Moncrieff fought with doing his translation, and then Terence Gilmartin. Dickens, some of them. Most writing? Never seen.