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GitHub now has Issue Attachments

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Re: GitHub now has Issue Attachments

#6

Post by danso »

sgarrity wrote: post #5

So, it's images only? I can't find any mention of what file types are supported.

What other ones should there be? Mediawise, seems like video-attachments are too rare to develop an inhouse viewer solution for. For binary types...why would they need to be viewed inline?

Re: GitHub now has Issue Attachments

#8

Post by sgarrity »

danso wrote: post #6
sgarrity wrote: post #5

So, it's images only? I can't find any mention of what file types are supported.

What other ones should there be? Mediawise, seems like video-attachments are too rare to develop an inhouse viewer solution for. For binary types...why would they need to be viewed inline?

I was thinking of non-media files - arbitrary files. PDF, docx, odf, txt, etc. The lack of being able to attach arbitrary files to Issues is awkward. That said, for open projects, I can see them wanting to avoid becoming an accidental free file-hosting service.

Re: GitHub now has Issue Attachments

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Post by danso »

sgarrity wrote: post #8
danso wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What other ones should there be? Mediawise, seems like video-attachments are too rare to develop an inhouse viewer solution for. For binary types...why would they need to be viewed inline?

I was thinking of non-media files - arbitrary files. PDF, docx, odf, txt, etc. The lack of being able to attach arbitrary files to Issues is awkward. That said, for open projects, I can see them wanting to avoid becoming an accidental free file-hosting service.

Those would be useful but I guess in terms of issue-reporting, screenshots are universally valuable for showing erroneous program behavior...when would other filetypes be useful for that, except in cases of programs that are designed to output such filetypes (attaching an ODF would be useful for an ODF generator, for instance)?

Re: GitHub now has Issue Attachments

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Post by hunvreus »

With Skitch completely screwing their latest release, hosting issue related files (screenshots, doodles...) was painful to say the least. Dropbox did an ok job at it but did not let me embed pictures in the thread (the file URLs change randomly).

Pretty awesome that the guys at Github got that covered.

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