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Pijul is a free and open source (GPL2) distributed version control system

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Re: Pijul is a free and open source (GPL2) distributed version control system

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I'm watching Pijul from afar for years now. I'd love to see it get 1% of the investment Github gets...

Github also managed to succeed through being a kind of social network (think "stars").

If you care about Github's dominance being an issue, walk the walk : refuse to do bug reports through it, publicly shame people and companies that use it or advertise it.

Re: Pijul is a free and open source (GPL2) distributed version control system

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post #2

I'm watching Pijul from afar for years now. I'd love to see it get 1% of the investment Github gets...

Github also managed to succeed through being a kind of social network (think "stars"). If you care about Github's dominance being an issue, walk the walk : refuse to do bug reports through it, publicly shame people and companies that use it or advertise it.

I use Github and I bet 99% of coders here do too. If someone tries to publicly shame me, I'll just laugh at them.

Re: Pijul is a free and open source (GPL2) distributed version control system

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I seem to recall very positive comments regarding pijul's underlying architecture/theory. However, as I don't have the headspace to delve into it, I would love a blurb at the beginner level that highlights the benefits of using pijul compared to other VCS, and a very brief and simple comparison between pijul and git (focusing on the differences).

Re: Pijul is a free and open source (GPL2) distributed version control system

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I seem to recall very positive comments regarding pijul's underlying architecture/theory. However, as I don't have the headspace to delve into it, I would love a blurb at the beginner level that highlights the benefits of using pijul compared to other VCS, and a very brief and simple comparison between pijul and git (focusing on the differences).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39452312

This comment (that probably prompted this submission) gave me some idea at least.

Re: Pijul is a free and open source (GPL2) distributed version control system

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post #2

I'm watching Pijul from afar for years now. I'd love to see it get 1% of the investment Github gets...

Github also managed to succeed through being a kind of social network (think "stars"). If you care about Github's dominance being an issue, walk the walk : refuse to do bug reports through it, publicly shame people and companies that use it or advertise it.

If I care about one thing, I should "shame" others who do not care about it? It feels like your comment escalates things up too quickly. Could it be that you wanted to expand your thoughts in between and didn't have the time or just forgot?

Re: Pijul is a free and open source (GPL2) distributed version control system

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Github also managed to succeed through being a kind of social network (think "stars"). If you care about Github's dominance being an issue, walk the walk : refuse to do bug reports through it, publicly shame people and companies that use it or advertise it.

I use Github and I bet 99% of coders here do too. If someone tries to publicly shame me, I'll just laugh at them.

> I use Github and I bet 99% of coders here do too.

I know plenty of people & projects using Gitlab and Sourcehut (myself).

> If someone tries to publicly shame me, I'll just laugh at them.

Shaming may be wrong. You must have pretty good job security/wealth/influence to refuse Github because this can lose you many opportunities in the industry.

But that doesn't make it good, only understandable & honestly sad

Re: Pijul is a free and open source (GPL2) distributed version control system

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I've been following this for awhile. Not my area of expertise but it seems like such a solid project.

Curious to hear about any experiences using it or thoughts about how it could be improved, extended, or compares to other systems in actual use.

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