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Kind of OT: I have just opened a free github account to follow a project. Any tips for a painfully pathetic n00b for learning to use github generally?
Try http://git-scm.com/ for a great (official) tutorial.
Kind of OT: I have just opened a free github account to follow a project. Any tips for a painfully pathetic n00b for learning to use github generally?
If you understand Git well enough, then the only major difference Github adds is pull requests, which is a pretty intuitive concept once you understand Git branching. Try http://git-scm.com/ for a great (official) tutorial.
Github provides excellent interface and workflow patterns for code collaboration. I don't know, maybe for some it's reasonable to swap patches via mail, but for me hassle of downloading attachments from gmail into the right folder is just not worth it.
Also, laugh all you want, but rendered README.md and having all code at glance are life-savers. It's so much easier to get a hold of what another open source library does, if it has nicely formatted README with examples. Bonus points for gh-pages hosted docs.
in my experience, pros: - full control (he is not using this as he and all other probably commit as user git) - commit hooks
contra: - you take the time to setup, debug, maintain. (track all those pesky security updates) - you have to backup. - people already have their keys setup at github.
also, about the paying for privacy... i have two github accounts. one with my real name another with a pseudonym.
and to conclude, after some time, i just moved all my code to bitbucket. initially because i rather mercurial and they have both. but then because you get a few private repos
Off topic: People who use Mother Teresa as the canonical example of selfless altruism need to read something about Mother Teresa so they don't look so silly.
Yeah, no kidding. Feeding and providing medical care for the Untouchables in India? She should have made an iPhone app to help find friends in restaurants nearby, that would have made he a real selfless altriust.
But (and you knew that "but" was coming) github is particularly useful and not amenable to the kind of gaming that Facebook and Google have indulged in. Git is truly distributed, and if github ever tried to block or manipulate repos there are full copies all over the place. It would be very easy (and dare I say such action would come swiftly) to react to any such wayward behavior on the part of github, mainly because of the nature of git.
So: definitely host your own git repo, but if you use github for collaborating on public open source projects, you really aren't running any kind of risk that github will ever hinder your access or control in anyway.
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If you understand Git well enough, then the only major difference Github adds is pull requests, which is a pretty intuitive concept once you understand Git branching. Try http://git-scm.com/ for a great (official) tutorial.
I actually know nothing about Git. But thank you for replying. Will check the link. :-)
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Yeah, no kidding. Feeding and providing medical care for the Untouchables in India? She should have made an iPhone app to help find friends in restaurants nearby, that would have made he a real selfless altriust.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/fighting_wor... http://m.timesofindia.com/world/uk/Mother-Teresa-saint-of-th...
http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/2013/04/mother-teresa...
What is the most telling is the response to Hitchens from the order she founded, on hearing about his death.
Despite Hitchens' vicious attacks on Mother Teresa over the years, the saint's order in India, Missionaries of Charity, said that it would offer prayers for the renowned atheist upon hearing of his passing late Thursday night at the age of 62, after a battle with cancer.
“We will pray for him and for his family,” spokeswoman for the order Sister Christie told Agence France-Presse.
http://www.christianpost.com/news/the-atheist-vs-the-saint-w...
Just a reminder, if you want a private Git repo, you can always use BitBucket, which provides you free private repos. And, it's also an excellent service in it's own right.
My public stuff all goes to github, and my private repos are all on BitBucket; virtually no cost to me that way and I use each service as it's promoted (imo).