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The only thing I don't understand about github is that "hardcore archiving in process..". I mean why do I have to wait a minute before I can start downloading the archive? Isn't it costly if the server has to create an archive every time someone requests a download?
The only thing I don't understand about github is that "hardcore archiving in process..". I mean why do I have to wait a minute before I can start downloading the archive? Isn't it costly if the server has to create an archive every time someone requests a download?
Or BitBucket if you're a Hg-person.
Actually Github seems to have a much better marketing compared to BitBucket. I would also imagine they are also quite larger. I'm a Hg-person, but I was just thinking I could move my repositories from my dedicated server to Github (via some git-hg plugin they wrote).
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For trivial changes as describe in the article? I tend to disagree. Decentralization saves you this administrative issues, like getting in touch with people in advance, before they can see if you are really interested by actually coding. I think it shows your value of this community if you are contributing in the small at first if it is a larger project.
I wrote "... will design & code an important patch ...". For important patches this is required, not for small changes.
What I really meant: If this patch is easy and fast to produce, don't contact the developer. Even if it is an important change.
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…
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…
Think of Github as a discoverable user interface for git . It has visible affordances . Github is to Git as OS X is to Unix.
Sorry, but I think you mean that OS X is the OS X of Unixes, and GitHub is the OS X of DVCSs.
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Think of Github as a discoverable user interface for git . It has visible affordances . Github is to Git as OS X is to Unix.
> It's the OS X of Unixes. Sorry, but I think you mean that OS X is the OS X of Unixes, and GitHub is the OS X of DVCSs.
Thanks!!!
As an aside, I was writing some Ruby code last night and realized that mojombo has written a ton of really awesome gems.