On Building Git for Lawyers - by Jordan Bryan

Over this past weekend, Twitter discovered the problem that I have dedicated the past four years of my life to solving. Why don't lawyers and other non-coders use git? This is an important question. The legal system is the essential bedrock upon which all else in society is built. The protection of civil rights, peaceful conflict resolution, access to due process, enforceable contracts — all these depend on a well functioning legal system. The professionals who operate this system are equipped with inadequate tooling. Absent git-like version control, they rely on inefficient and error-prone manual “version control” processing. In many cases, manual version control processes (e.g. git diff, merge, and rebase but by hand) take more than an hour of lawyer time per contract version while resulting in errors! Note: this problem is not specific to the law. Finance professionals, academic researchers, legislators, among many other professionals encounter similar version control issues. We are

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