KAkarmelapple·Sep 9, 2022
I helped make an example of this in GitHub for the Declaration of Independence: https://github.com/usgov/forget-the-king/pull/1
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Tired of the king; time to let him know
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5 sourcesReminds me of this PR of the Declaration of Independence, with comments from the founding fathers: https://github.com/usgov/forget-the-king/pull/1
In US Constitution – A Git repo with history of editsTired of the king; time to let him know
4 points · Open discussionThere are a lot of commits in the history of this repo that seem like actual typos on the behalf of the creator of the repo. For example, the line "that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" was accidentally removed here[1], and re-added in the next commit here[2]. It seems silly to have a project purporting to be various drafts of the Declaration to contain diffs which are entirely anachronistic/accidental/have nothing to do with the actual drafting process.
It turns out[3] that Jefferson wrote a first draft (of which only a fragment survives), then wrote the "original Rough draft" which is very similar to the document we know. 47 alterations were made before the vote for Independence, and 39 more between then and the official adoption of the document on July 4th.
I'd really like to see a version of this git reposi
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tory accurately reflecting the fragment, original draft, all 86 revisions (in approximate order and attributed as well we can), and final version published as the Dunlap Broadside, instead of this anachronistic heap.
[1] https://github.com/usgov/forget-the-king/pull/1/commits/f9ff...
[2] https://github.com/usgov/forget-the-king/pull/1/commits/d041...
[3] https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/declara/declara3.html
US Declaration of Independence first and final drafts as GitHub diffs
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