CodePlex now supports Git
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CodePlex now supports Git
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Re: CodePlex now supports Git
#2Right on Microsoft! It's great to see a software powerhouse able to turn its entire outlook about to keep it's users coming back. Between the ever wonderful Visual Studio IDE, and MS's new-found appreciation for how open-source can enhance it's position, it's a good time to be a .Net dev.
Re: CodePlex now supports Git
#3Right on Microsoft! It's great to see a software powerhouse able to turn its entire outlook about to keep it's users coming back. Between the ever wonderful Visual Studio IDE, and MS's new-found appreciation for how open-source can enhance it's position, it's a good time to be a .Net dev.
Completely true, but Github still beats Codeplex by parsecs.
Re: CodePlex now supports Git
#4One VCS to rule them all...
Having gone through different VCSs of varying (mostly poor) quality and cost over the span of my career, I am glad to see that that a de facto standard seems to be being settled on. Git is quite good, far better than any other solution I have used on a day-to-day basis. (No disrespect intended to Mercurial, etc.)
While having a breadth of technological solutions to problems is frequently a benefit, I'm not sure source code control falls into this category. This is an area ripe for de facto standardization. Developers should be able to go to a new job without having to relearn the intricacies of MKS, SVN, etc.
Re: CodePlex now supports Git
#5Right on Microsoft! It's great to see a software powerhouse able to turn its entire outlook about to keep it's users coming back. Between the ever wonderful Visual Studio IDE, and MS's new-found appreciation for how open-source can enhance it's position, it's a good time to be a .Net dev.
Completely true, but Github still beats Codeplex by parsecs.
They do different things. Github excels when it comes to community & source management, but doesn't really do anything to help you set up a project home page, manage official releases, or anything like that. Codeplex is more of a Sourceforge-style "one stop project hosting" site.
Re: CodePlex now supports Git
#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
Completely true, but Github still beats Codeplex by parsecs.
They do different things. Github excels when it comes to community & source management, but doesn't really do anything to help you set up a project home page, manage official releases, or anything like that. Codeplex is more of a Sourceforge-style "one stop project hosting" site.
They do have a way of setting up project pages: http://pages.github.com/
And each project has a download list which can contain official releases, or you can just link to a tag as a zip download. Github also has a pretty decent issue tracker and wiki.
Re: CodePlex now supports Git
#7One VCS to rule them all... Having gone through different VCSs of varying (mostly poor) quality and cost over the span of my career, I am glad to see that that a de facto standard seems to be being settled on. Git is quite good, far better than any other solution I have used on a day-to-day basis. (No disrespect intended to Mercurial, etc.) While having a breadth of technological solutions to problems is frequently a…
While I'm all for abandoning old and often awful VCSs, I do think there's room for some diversity. Git's not really my thing, and I'm happy to be able to use an alternative.
Most DVCSs work in very similar ways, and for standard use, I don't think there is a huge learning curve for someone switching between git and mercurial, for instance. Some other tools have their own benefits, like fossil with its nice integrated web project management features.
All in all, I'd be quite sad to see only git everywhere.
Re: CodePlex now supports Git
#8Right on Microsoft! It's great to see a software powerhouse able to turn its entire outlook about to keep it's users coming back. Between the ever wonderful Visual Studio IDE, and MS's new-found appreciation for how open-source can enhance it's position, it's a good time to be a .Net dev.
I agree, Visual Studio and C# are great tools, and complemented by open source tools like Git, libraries and extensions like SpecFlow, it makes a pretty compelling development environment.
Re: CodePlex now supports Git
#9One VCS to rule them all... Having gone through different VCSs of varying (mostly poor) quality and cost over the span of my career, I am glad to see that that a de facto standard seems to be being settled on. Git is quite good, far better than any other solution I have used on a day-to-day basis. (No disrespect intended to Mercurial, etc.) While having a breadth of technological solutions to problems is frequently a…
While I'm all for abandoning old and often awful VCSs, I do think there's room for some diversity. Git's not really my thing, and I'm happy to be able to use an alternative. Most DVCSs work in very similar ways, and for standard use, I don't think there is a huge learning curve for someone switching between git and mercurial, for instance. Some other tools have their own benefits, like fossil with its nice integrated…
> While I'm all for abandoning old and often awful VCSs, I do think there's room for some diversity.
So do I. I just think that it will be nice should there come a day where knowing git will allow you to deal with the majority of the positions out there. I do not believe git is a 100% fit for all organizations. I do, however, believe git is flexible enough to be a fit for, say, 80-90% of them.
I think git will become a de facto standard. Like all such things, though, there will be alternatives available and in active use.
Re: CodePlex now supports Git
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
While I'm all for abandoning old and often awful VCSs, I do think there's room for some diversity. Git's not really my thing, and I'm happy to be able to use an alternative. Most DVCSs work in very similar ways, and for standard use, I don't think there is a huge learning curve for someone switching between git and mercurial, for instance. Some other tools have their own benefits, like fossil with its nice integrated…
> While I'm all for abandoning old and often awful VCSs, I do think there's room for some diversity. So do I. I just think that it will be nice should there come a day where knowing git will allow you to deal with the majority of the positions out there. I do not believe git is a 100% fit for all organizations. I do , however, believe git is flexible enough to be a fit for, say, 80-90% of them. I think git will becom…
I see your point, and I'd much rather see git become a standard rather than a Visual Source Safe clone.
At work I chose (yeah, there was no VCS in use before that) mercurial mainly because we're a small .NET shop, and a nice GUI like TortoiseHg is a big selling point when you're trying to encourage people to use such a tool. There are actually lots of developers who just hate using a CLI. And I don't know how things have evolved, but git was not known to be very windows-friendly two years ago, even apart from the GUI thing.