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Re: Upload files to your repositories

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Post by hire_charts »

whorleater wrote: post #3

This is actually a pretty good step. Most programmers are already using some kind of UI/command line to push to Github, but having a simple drag and drop for uploads will get those who are less technically inclined on our teams to actually use version control more. At least I really hope I can stop dealing with the "asset_1", "asset_1-2", "asset_1_USETHISONE" that some people do.

The problem is that this kind of workflow -- where someone iterates through multiple versions of a file or folder, renaming them each time -- results from the work they are doing offline and the lack of offline version control usage. Adding a step where you drag and drop your iterations into a website might only add to the confusion, rather than actually alleviating that pain.

Re: Upload files to your repositories

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Post by Joeboy »

nilved wrote: post #38
Joeboy wrote: post #37

Github pages is now the right way to set up a reasonably-smart-n00b-editable website, IMO.

Maybe for a Hacker News n00b, but a garden variety n00b has not heard of Markdown, YAML, or, for that matter, GitHub. They're going to keep using WordPress, Tumblr and Squarespace.

Well, the reason I said that is that a year or so ago I set up a gh-pages website for a person who I doubt could tell you what any of those things are. She's done fine so far, except that any time an image needs uploading I have to do it on the command line.

Re: Upload files to your repositories

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Post by fiatjaf »

nilved wrote: post #38
Joeboy wrote: post #37

Github pages is now the right way to set up a reasonably-smart-n00b-editable website, IMO.

Maybe for a Hacker News n00b, but a garden variety n00b has not heard of Markdown, YAML, or, for that matter, GitHub. They're going to keep using WordPress, Tumblr and Squarespace.

And writing posts in Word.

Re: Upload files to your repositories

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Post by [deleted] »

minimaxir wrote: post #6

This feature has interesting synergy with GitHub Pages, where .md files can simply be dragged-and-dropped into a folder to get published as a blog post on the web. It may be enough to remove the must-be-programmer-who-understands-git barrier to entry, anyways. EDIT: GitHub Pages still requires specific file naming for posts and YAML front matter, so it's not perfectly non-programmer friendly. It might be a good idea…

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Re: Upload files to your repositories

#48

Post by roblabla »

r0m4n0 wrote: post #15

Awesome... I can think of 4 or 5 times I have been away from my laptop but still need to update a photo for a client. Glad to see this, otherwise I would have never known it had been added! Slightly brings up an interesting point. With native apps, I usually review release notes upon updating. Webapps get to release whenever they please to little notice of the end user (for better or worse). With releasing new webapp…

GitHub has a pretty extensive changelog in the form of blog posts. They also put them on the github.com homepage, top right (the broadcasts).

It's true that every webapps don't do that though, and that's a real shame for the "power users".

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