Say what you want about Git, GitHub is awesome.
I haven't heard too many people say bad things about Git.
Git's technology is awesome, but are you happy with its CLI?
Github turns five
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#12Without Github, contributing to OSS would have been much harder for me (being a noncoder). Thank you for giving us a tool with tremendous leverage in many aspects, both technical and nontechnical.
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#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
Say what you want about GitHub, Git is awesome. (Not sure why we're comparing them but I'll throw in my opposing opinion. I actually like both but Git itself is much more important to me than GitHub.)
Honest question: If it's not for GitHub's community features that get enabled through git's decentralized repository, what does git do for you more than a local SVN server?
For one, decentralized version control.
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#14I LOVE github, their little project forever changed the way I think about & write software, and their ideas (blogposts/presentations) about how to build software are truly a massive inspiration for me. PS: Would be awesome to see who has the oldest github account on here. I joined April 20 2008.
Mar 05, 2008
Sep 30, 2009 :(
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#16Amazing work github! Now get those sticker packs back in the store so I can buy a few and stick them everywhere :P
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
Say what you want about GitHub, Git is awesome. (Not sure why we're comparing them but I'll throw in my opposing opinion. I actually like both but Git itself is much more important to me than GitHub.)
Honest question: If it's not for GitHub's community features that get enabled through git's decentralized repository, what does git do for you more than a local SVN server?
the spectacular ease of creating and merging branches is a huge one.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
Say what you want about GitHub, Git is awesome. (Not sure why we're comparing them but I'll throw in my opposing opinion. I actually like both but Git itself is much more important to me than GitHub.)
Honest question: If it's not for GitHub's community features that get enabled through git's decentralized repository, what does git do for you more than a local SVN server?
I used to use SVN. We built control software for robots. We'd take the robots away on a field trial - no internet access - fix some bugs, write some code, add some features.
That's five to ten people, all writing code that interacts with each other's, all without any access to the SVN server. You can imagine the copy-pasta that went on. The amount of "oh fuck, I just rebuilt-all without Dave's changes". The amount of "Bags not merging this shit."
Then we'd get back to work after a weekend and have to merge all our independent branches. That could take a day or two on its own. Sometimes, sitting with five people's laptops in front of you and using the human brain's visual diff was more efficient than trying to do it properly.
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Now, with git, we push and pull wherever the hell we like as needed. Everyone's laptop is equivalent to the server. When we get back, everyone merges their stuff into staging, all the cross-dependencies get magically resolved, we test it, and merge that into master. It takes about fifteen minutes.
(Actually, I don't work there any more, but the conclusion works better in the present tense.)
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#19I LOVE github, their little project forever changed the way I think about & write software, and their ideas (blogposts/presentations) about how to build software are truly a massive inspiration for me. PS: Would be awesome to see who has the oldest github account on here. I joined April 20 2008.
http://caius.github.io/github_id/
Doesn't show join date, but user IDs are auto-incrementing.
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#20Please explain to me how GitHub is anything other than a communist ploy for black men to steal our white women? I know it sounds slightly far-fetched, but hear me out. With centralized systems like SVN, open source has standards: white people control access, and can ensure no inferior negro code makes it into projects. With GitHub, anyone can fork anything! There aren't even any racial restrictions. For some reason people think this is a good idea?