Code.Google.com now supports git • Hacker News Board

Re: Code.Google.com now supports git

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Post by eliben » Sun, Jul 17, 2011, 5:00 AM UTC

sussman wrote: post #17

shazow wrote: post #13

That's great, but I'm still slowly moving my projects over to Github. 1. I get much more engagement from random developers on Github. On Github, random people will fork and add features, do code reviews and leave comments. All of these things are technically possible on Google Code but nobody does it—probably due to the usability but possibly also a cultural problem. Github has a strong culture of collaboration becau…

(Speaking purely for myself here.) I agree the code is important, but I think a cohesive project is more important. Github presents itself as a giant pastebin for code, with "projects" bolted on. Google Code presents projects first, and puts the code at an even level with every other part: bugtracker, downloads, wiki. (That said, I agree pull requests would be cool.)

Agreed, and yet implementing the features that make Github (& Bitbucket) what it is doesn't sound terribly difficult, and most importantly won't ruin the other "project-y" features of Google code.

Personally my projects are still on Google code, but Github is becoming more and more tempting.

Re: Code.Google.com now supports git

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Post by nolliesnom » Sun, Jul 17, 2011, 5:21 PM UTC

mnutt wrote: post #80

nolliesnom wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

my take on it is that gc is better at running long-lived projects or projects with non-developer users. github is great, but its emphasis is strictly on coding and dvcs. i've run svn gc projects, and projects on github, and found the gc stack to be generally more robust, cohesive, flexible, and methodically designed. ex: compare the rich functionality of the gc issue tracker to github and you'll find them incomparabl…

I think what he means is that you can actually design a site for your project and host it on Github. For example: http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/ Are there any non-google sites that do this on google code? As far as I can tell, all of them look like this: http://code.google.com/p/waf/ Which is fine, but I'd hardly say that a new user would find that less daunting than the Homebrew page. There's a lot going on, and i…

yes, you can actually design a site for your project and host it on google code. directing your users to the gc-provided default is your choice.

the contents of your repositories are hosted available at projectname.googlecode.com, and you can serve HTML just like you can code. example: http://json-template.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/doc/On-Design-...

the urls are not as nice but github's aren't great either.

Re: Code.Google.com now supports git

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Post by mnutt » Mon, Jul 18, 2011, 4:30 AM UTC

nolliesnom wrote: post #82

mnutt wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think what he means is that you can actually design a site for your project and host it on Github. For example: http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/ Are there any non-google sites that do this on google code? As far as I can tell, all of them look like this: http://code.google.com/p/waf/ Which is fine, but I'd hardly say that a new user would find that less daunting than the Homebrew page. There's a lot going on, and i…

yes, you can actually design a site for your project and host it on google code. directing your users to the gc-provided default is your choice. the contents of your repositories are hosted available at projectname.googlecode.com, and you can serve HTML just like you can code. example: http://json-template.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/doc/On-Design-... the urls are not as nice but github's aren't great either.

Thanks, I didn't know that. They should publicize that feature so that more projects use it.

I still find Github's detached gh-pages branches to be really clever and convenient.