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5 minute fork
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#2Remy's block post about the idea and development: http://remysharp.com/2013/03/18/quick-dirty-forking/
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#3Tried it with the only repo I have with plain html/js* and works like a charm. Pretty neat!
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#4This is great for me. Thank you so much.
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#5Great idea. I guess one could even do this with rails / django / node projects as long as they're being run in a sandbox, but that's probably way more work.
Nevertheless, great. It happens so often that I see something on Github that simply lacks a live demo. Thanks!
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#6Remy's block post about the idea and development: http://remysharp.com/2013/03/18/quick-dirty-forking/
Wouldn't it be more efficient to extract just the "working directory" without all the .git mess? That is if github supports git archive.
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#7What this project does really wasn't clear to me until I tried reidrac's canvas-raycasting URL, so here is a (hopefully more clear) explanation:
If a github repo has an index.html file and you click on it, github will show you the source instead of the webpage. 5minfork shows you the webpage so that you can have an idea of what the repo is about.
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#8I've found http://htmlpreview.github.com to be pretty useful as well. Any notable differences?
Re: 5 minute fork
#9What this project does really wasn't clear to me until I tried reidrac's canvas-raycasting URL, so here is a (hopefully more clear) explanation: If a github repo has an index.html file and you click on it, github will show you the source instead of the webpage. 5minfork shows you the webpage so that you can have an idea of what the repo is about.
If you don't mind, I'll pinch that and whack it on the index.html page.
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#10I've found http://htmlpreview.github.com to be pretty useful as well. Any notable differences?
Apparently, 5 Minute Fork clones the whole repo and serves it up at its own subdomain and htmlpreview doesn't, so for example some single page JS apps (the one I tried is my own https://github.com/mikecrittenden/toogles) will work in 5 min fork and not htmlpreview.