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Meta: Beautifully written release summary, including hyperlinks and animated gif "demos". Inspirational for our own releases :-)
Do you know what they might have used to make the gifs?
I tried a lot other services to convert quicktime recording to gif but all of them have color encoding issues.
Original announcement with hipster mode off. ;) http://marc.info/?l=git&m=147286906121492&w=2
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Nice formatting aside, I am slightly concerned that GitHub "releasing a release note" for Git would further blur the distinction between the two for new programmers. If I were new to Git and GitHub, I would have thought that Git is a product of the company GitHub. Edit: After searching through git repo and official site, I could not find any nicely "rendered" release note beyond the official release note in raw markd…
I recently participated in a focus group which was discussing git, github, and other git-ish things. To my eyes, it seemed like most of the other participants were unclear on what the difference between git and github actually was as answers about the two were often interchanged.
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I do corporate trainings on git. Many prospective clients or vendors call me asking for "g.i.t. hub" trainings. Thankfully though, most of these are just the misinformed marketing teams. The engineering people usually grasp the difference easily when I finally reach the parts about collaboration. I like the cameraphone/instagram analogy. Thanks! I usually do all the pushes/pulls etc. using a file:// remote so that pe…
Interesting. Do you get a lot of work training people in git?
Also, I think cheaper git trainers have shown up on the market and many people are already familiar with it both of which have reduced the number of requests I get.
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I recently participated in a focus group which was discussing git, github, and other git-ish things. To my eyes, it seemed like most of the other participants were unclear on what the difference between git and github actually was as answers about the two were often interchanged.
In a more perfect world I would have wanted to see GitHub be stopped at the time of release due to trademark concerns, as they clearly did this knowing it would creat this kind of confusion; it devalues git itself and their business model relies on that.
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In a more perfect world I would have wanted to see GitHub be stopped at the time of release due to trademark concerns, as they clearly did this knowing it would creat this kind of confusion; it devalues git itself and their business model relies on that.
That's quite an extraordinary claim. Do you have any actual evidence to support it?
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That's quite an extraordinary claim. Do you have any actual evidence to support it?
To support which claim? That they knew naming their product "GitHub" would lead to this kind of confusion? The opposite of that is the extraordinary claim: it is painfully obvious that if you take someone else's product and name yours "ThatProductHub" you will cause semantic confusion over whether your product is directly affiliated with the other product. I am not even sure what evidence could be provided to refute…
Does anybody really care about the progress meters? Those useless numbers! You can try to tell me you are not stuck every half second or so, but I don't want to see all the noise. I'd rather it not print out anything by default unless I ask for it or it fails. Why do git developers concern about the colored output? It's completely unrelated to SCM at all. I love the functionality. But it shouldn't be only for git. Ca…
2) As long as GIT diff exists, making it more usable should certainly be a core part of changes to GIT diff. There are many utilities you can use for GIT diffs easily enough instead of the base diff. But I like the fact that if I'm at a machine where my preferred utilities are not setup, I still have a very usable diff built into GIT.
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I find the gifs make the text around them far harder to focus on. I'd much prefer they only played on click or hover.
I'm actually surprised that the browsers don't have gif playback controls by now.