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I'm a developer and a writer. I use Github version control for some of my writing, to keep track of changes.

I've got one ebook about Cycle touring that I have in a public repository on Github. I've got a new one I'm working on about Investing. It's rather more of an earlier draft that the other one, so I'm wondering whether to keep it in a public repository, which anybody can see, e.g. on github, or in a private repository, e.g. on bitbucket, where only I would have access.

It is possible to clone a repository from one service to the other with all its revision history and branches (details here), so I'm not locking myself in to either platform.

My question is, is it a problem to share my work publicly like this, before its fully baked?

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Have a look at medium.com it is built for writers it has revisions and notations.

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If you want to share your work while you write it, github is an okay way to do that. It's not great, because it's usable only by the tiny fraction of people who know how to use git.

Consider LeanPub.com. Many of my colleagues publish their books through LeanPub.com. LeanPub converts writers' manuscripts (written in markdown) into standard epub files. And writers can make their books available while they write, and update as often as they want.

LeanPub may be slightly less convenient for the writer (because you have to do a teeny tiny bit more than simply commit your changes), but it's much more convenient for early readers who don't know git.

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I keep my fanfiction on Github.
github.com/IWriteThings/fanfiction.fmpgcol
I have since moved all of my original writing over to a Gitlab self hosted server that I have through a company called scaleways. This allows me to do all of my editing and work flow through something I enjoy like Github but without worrying about fees or licensing concerns.

I think you should look into hosting your own Gitlab server. Companies like scaleways can do one-click installations of Gitlab for less than per month.

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