Ask Tom Preston-Werner, cofounder of GitHub, anything Today, Mon 18 Oct 2010.

Post by mrjbq7 » Tue, Oct 19, 2010, 8:57 AM UTC

mojombo wrote: post #120

mrjbq7 wrote: post #114

Hi Tom, I've been waiting two months for a minor ticket (#8991) to get pushed to production. I totally understand development priorities, and especially the challenge of high-volume production environments. I've heard the development environment of Github described as extremely agile: being driven by individual desires rather than being directed by management, as is typical of a top-down organization. My question is…

This ticket looks to have gotten quite a bit of attention, but the Pygments upgrade seems to have fallen through the cracks. I'm working to get it back on track. We do our best to handle every support ticket, but low priority tickets can sometimes take a while to be properly addressed. Sorry about that!

Post by natep » Tue, Oct 19, 2010, 6:20 PM UTC

mojombo wrote: post #127

natep wrote: post #125

Are you planning to release svn write-support in any fashion at any point in the future? git has git-cvsserver, and could really use a git-svnserver. Also, many of the casual svn users I talk to are on Windows using TortoiseSVN. Git's Windows support has grown in leaps and bounds in recent months, but it's still not quite 100% (seems the entire git mailing list uses linux/osx, TortoiseGit isn't as clean/solid as Tort…

We already do support writing via the SVN bridge: http://github.com/blog/644-subversion-write-support Windows support for Git is ok, but it could be a lot better. We absolutely intend to create first class Git/GitHub experiences on every platform.