I am managing a repo for a very heterogeneous group of people who are not tech-oriented at all. Basically nobody of them knows git. In this repo we only have four small markdown documents as part of a long-term project. The plan is that we will be working on these documents endlessly: For several years, we want to improve, restrucutre, rewrite, ... these four textfiles. And, as every member of the group has its own ideas of how the documents shall look like, everybody shall be able to create or merge branches. You may think of it as a community of people crowd-writing a small book. The repo shall contain many versions of this book with iterative changes and parallel developments. And the development of this book shall go on and on. We want the group to be growing over the years from ~10 to ~100 contributors, and it shall be possible to clone or fork the repo so that other groups can do the same but in their own way.

I consider git to be the optimal backbone of such a project. But I have the problem that the group is absolutely unexperienced with things like scm or software development. They don't know how to use a CLI and they don't want to install any software. (Think of the group members as a cross-section of a large population: Most of them know how to use computers and smartphones. But that's about it.)

So here I am, looking for a super-simple git webclient application with a massively stripped-down functionality in a lean GUI that offers online-editing, commits, branching, merging. (and not much more!)

Optimally, the GUI is available in multiple languages, and it is already used by a free git hosting service that our group members can join right away.

The UI of GitHub looks way too technical for these people: It offers too many buttons and information at once, and the tree visualization (network) is too small.

I also had a look at ungit (-> youtube): I like its clean and nicely animated tree visualization and the way the UI is somehow built around this tree visu. You can directly work on the tree by interacting with it. But apart from that, ungit also offers too many options at once, and you have to install it locally or on your own server. So, it's still too technical for the contributers.

Any ideas what could be the right tool for my group?

I wanted something better than just pressing 'edit' on the page in Github. I googled and found several different options.

Top ones seem to be Gitpod , Prose , StackEdit and Atom editor.

Hi, how to do you edit your GitHub Gist code online? is there a tip to do that?
I find the edit window is extremely tiny to be usable (this screenshot is on a very normal laptop screen of just 13inch with no high resolution display). To be able to modify a code efficiently the display I would expect it to take the full width least and be much taller. Regards