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Re: Got Hacking? Git Hacking.

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Congrats for a great startup weekend.

I love the idea. A couple of months ago I created gistcube[1], It was a weekend project to learn a bit about Mongodb and Sinatra. Gistcube is a way to discover interesting gist in github. You can vote up, add to favorites, tag gists, and alos sign up to interesting/tags gist using rss.

[1] http://gistcube.com

Re: Got Hacking? Git Hacking.

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Not really sure what this is/does. Can someone summarize? Is it search/social thing built on github?

Social is a little misleading. It's more about connecting developers to projects. For contributors, it's about finding projects that would be of interest to them. For maintainers, it's about finding developers to fill the needs of their projects.

Re: Got Hacking? Git Hacking.

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This seems like a cool idea. You might want to check with a lawyer about the logo up top though, thats definitely GitHub's octocat hiding behind Apple's Terminal.app logo.

No need to consult a lawyer, just open an issue at http://support.github.com and ask if it's okay.

No need to do that, they've pointed out in the past that it's a stock image they've bought the rights to use and can not authorize others to use it.

I forget where I read this, but it was someone asking the same thing. I might have been on HN, actually.

Re: Got Hacking? Git Hacking.

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No need to consult a lawyer, just open an issue at http://support.github.com and ask if it's okay.

No need to do that, they've pointed out in the past that it's a stock image they've bought the rights to use and can not authorize others to use it. I forget where I read this, but it was someone asking the same thing. I might have been on HN, actually.

GitHub now owns the octocat art.

Re: Got Hacking? Git Hacking.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

No need to consult a lawyer, just open an issue at http://support.github.com and ask if it's okay.

No need to do that, they've pointed out in the past that it's a stock image they've bought the rights to use and can not authorize others to use it. I forget where I read this, but it was someone asking the same thing. I might have been on HN, actually.

@defunkt

We'll get on that ASAP. Nothin' but love.

Re: Got Hacking? Git Hacking.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

No need to do that, they've pointed out in the past that it's a stock image they've bought the rights to use and can not authorize others to use it. I forget where I read this, but it was someone asking the same thing. I might have been on HN, actually.

GitHub now owns the octocat art.

Cool! Congrats on finally getting it. :-)

Re: Got Hacking? Git Hacking.

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I would like to suggest that folks consider working on git itself. The git mailing list is very friendly and supportive and you will be making a valuable contribution to the git community. You'll also have an opportunity to brush up your C skills with guidance from some excellent C hackers.

If you aren't a C coder, you can help to improve the documentation (really, just pick a man page, there are many that can use improving). Or, look at it as an opportunity to learn C -- some parts of git are quite advanced, but there's also lots of areas that are easy to work on.

See the git wiki for some areas that can use love:

https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Janitor

https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/ToDo

https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Wishlist

(Sadly the wiki is down right now, so please paste those links into google and click the cached link.)

So go on, get yourself listed on http://git-scm.com/about

:)

Re: Got Hacking? Git Hacking.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

No need to do that, they've pointed out in the past that it's a stock image they've bought the rights to use and can not authorize others to use it. I forget where I read this, but it was someone asking the same thing. I might have been on HN, actually.

GitHub now owns the octocat art.

You guys should seriously think about allowing other projects to use the octocat when the projects are associated to github.

it would be a nice way of everybody having a common "icon", much like twitter has the bird.

I know people can link to github, but that's not always possible (mobile apps?) even though people use github..

Re: Got Hacking? Git Hacking.

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I would like to suggest that folks consider working on git itself. The git mailing list is very friendly and supportive and you will be making a valuable contribution to the git community. You'll also have an opportunity to brush up your C skills with guidance from some excellent C hackers. If you aren't a C coder, you can help to improve the documentation (really, just pick a man page, there are many that can use im…

Thank you for this-- just the reply I was looking for. Out of curiosity, which man pages need the most work right now?
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