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Linus Torvalds now on GitHub

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Re: Linus Torvalds now on GitHub

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Post by slowpoke »

simonw wrote: post #50
augustl wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

WHen I google "git hosting", the first hit is git.kernel.org, then two stack overflow posts, then Gitorious, then GitHub. I wonder what my account contains that makes Google think Gitorious is more important to me.

You're seeing customised results. Try a fresh browser session with no cookies (Chrome's Incognito mode is invaluable for this - hit Cmd+Shift+N).

I'd just like to add that a search for "git hosting" on DDG ("duckgoing" if you will) yields, aside from the SO quick info box (which mentions Gitorious and Redmine), unfuddle.com is the first result, github doesn't show up until the fourth of fifth, and I haven't scrolled down to look for Gitorious. It does, however, show http://git-scm.com/tools as the second result, which includes a summary of the most popular hosters divided by categories.

Re: Linus Torvalds now on GitHub

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Post by Argorak »

gaius wrote: post #48
sjs wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Number of repos.

Number of private repos. You can have an unlimited number of public repos with any plan.

Also: Number of private repositories that have their _root_ in your account. You can fork private projects between users with access to the root repos and not have them count against you limit.

Re: Linus Torvalds now on GitHub

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Post by moe »

Poor Linus will probably be flooded with patches and pull requests for every commit he makes.

On the other hand, he might very well spark some interesting things just by committing small stubs of his ideas.

Re: Linus Torvalds now on GitHub

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Post by jannes »

pmarin wrote: post #47
cookiecaper wrote: post #2

It'd've been advantageous to see this go on a purely open service like Gitorious instead. They often provide similar features as GitHub and could definitely use the exposure of Linus's account. I use and enjoy GitHub, so this definitely isn't a personal gripe, I'd just like to see the competition in that space heat up a bit, and there'd be bonus points if we could simultaneously promote a completely open platform.

I am curious to know which one has contributed more to the open source scene. Github has released many non trivial code of its backend and popularized the use of git outside the Linux kernel.

In a way github has contributed more to open source, because they host more open source repositories. They act as a catalyst for open source.

Re: Linus Torvalds now on GitHub

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Post by pwaring »

p4bl0 wrote: post #34
sjs wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's a lot longer than it takes to sign up for Github.

Your comparison is not fair. Signing up for Gitorious takes the same time as signing up for GitHub (maybe even less since it supports OpenID, I don't know if GitHub does).

GitHub doesn't support OpenID for registration or login (or if they do, it's hidden away somewhere).

Re: Linus Torvalds now on GitHub

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Post by NARKOZ »

lallysingh wrote: post #42
grandalf wrote: post #22

Congrats to the Github team for this. I'd say it's a pretty huge endorsement, regardless of whether Linus intended it that way or not.

Well, let's wait to see Linus's comments on how he feels about it. If he's unhappy, he'll write about it in public, scathing remarks.

like Zed Shaw? :)

Re: Linus Torvalds now on GitHub

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Post by yuvadam »

moe wrote: post #55

Poor Linus will probably be flooded with patches and pull requests for every commit he makes. On the other hand, he might very well spark some interesting things just by committing small stubs of his ideas.

And it has begun...

https://github.com/arkx/diveclog/commit/c800d93a83f18b1c2b18...

Re: Linus Torvalds now on GitHub

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Post by jjm »

mattyb wrote: post #31
tzs wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Looked at from the point of view of for-pay hosted storage, Github is astoundingly expensive. I have 94 megabytes of git repositories at work. Github would want $100/month to host that. If their software was all available and open source, I could host their software and my repositories on an $11/month Rackspace virtual machine, and still have about 7 gigabytes left over (or more realistically just stick it on a vhost…

I have 94 megabytes of git repositories at work. Github would want $100/month to host that. Huh? My $7/month plan comes with 600+MB of storage, and my job's $50/month plan comes with 6GB. Where are you getting these numbers?

Disk space is a soft limit. Hard limits are repos. I find it hard to beleive your company can't spend $100 on offloading to a managed resource such as GitHub.
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