GitHub is the Best Thing Ever

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Post by blister » Sat, May 29, 2010, 5:13 AM UTC

GitHub is the Best Thing Ever
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Re: GitHub is the Best Thing Ever

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Post by pook » Sat, May 29, 2010, 5:38 AM UTC

We should make a Tiny Fork Day.

A day where X people fork, make at least one contribution, and request a pull.

Set up a cool site targetting people who are interested in coding, but haven't yet gotten the courage to contribute, and you could have something.

Re: GitHub is the Best Thing Ever

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Post by spoon16 » Sat, May 29, 2010, 5:41 AM UTC

After reading this article I went ahead and forked the Konami-Unicorn-Blitz project (the same one this article references). Added a hideAfter property that autohides the unicorns after 30 seconds and submitted a pull request. We'll see if the change is accepted :)

GitHub is neat.

Re: GitHub is the Best Thing Ever

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Post by steveklabnik » Sat, May 29, 2010, 6:04 AM UTC

pook wrote: post #2

We should make a Tiny Fork Day. A day where X people fork, make at least one contribution, and request a pull. Set up a cool site targetting people who are interested in coding, but haven't yet gotten the courage to contribute, and you could have something.

It's almost like a flash mob.

I like it.

Re: GitHub is the Best Thing Ever

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Post by endtwist » Sat, May 29, 2010, 6:14 AM UTC

Funny, I put together a script just yesterday that allows you to do pull requests from the command line (via git): http://gist.github.com/415266

Improvements always welcomed :)

Re: GitHub is the Best Thing Ever

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Post by rtomayko » Sat, May 29, 2010, 6:19 AM UTC

The GitHub homepage had support for the Konami code with the commercial launch, IIRC:

http://github.com/site

Re: GitHub is the Best Thing Ever

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, May 29, 2010, 6:28 AM UTC

pook wrote: post #2

We should make a Tiny Fork Day. A day where X people fork, make at least one contribution, and request a pull. Set up a cool site targetting people who are interested in coding, but haven't yet gotten the courage to contribute, and you could have something.

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Re: GitHub is the Best Thing Ever

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Post by Loic » Sat, May 29, 2010, 7:49 AM UTC

You do not need github to do that. You just need git and any git hosting. Forking is just a clone, you push in your hosting (whatever it is) and ask the guy on the other end to pull. No centralized control, real distributed development.

Linux is developed like that every day. My own forge software http://indefero.net is also developed like that, with forks on github, on other instances of Indefero or just on 'hand rolled git hosting'.

So, the title should really be "Git (or any good distributed SCM) is the best thing ever".

Re: GitHub is the Best Thing Ever

#9

Post by barmstrong » Sat, May 29, 2010, 7:56 AM UTC

sweet easter egg!

Re: GitHub is the Best Thing Ever

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Post by ajtaylor » Sat, May 29, 2010, 8:06 AM UTC

Loic wrote: post #8

You do not need github to do that. You just need git and any git hosting. Forking is just a clone, you push in your hosting (whatever it is) and ask the guy on the other end to pull. No centralized control, real distributed development. Linux is developed like that every day. My own forge software http://indefero.net is also developed like that, with forks on github, on other instances of Indefero or just on 'hand ro…

True, you don't need github. But it's killer feature is that provides the initial grease on the rails so that Joe Blow can come along to quickly and easily add a feature or fix a bug. As someone who just this week made some doc contributions to 2 different projects on GH, I can tell you the feeling is addictive.

That's why Github is cool.