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Re: Gitrep - Discover and organize Github repositories

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Post by xbryanx »

I was really hoping that this would be a service that would allow me to organize my private repositories into folders. I know I can do this with submodules, but I was hoping for an easy user interface. I'm guessing this is an area where you could make money, until GitHub solves the problem.

I find it difficult to track the 100+ private repos we have for various projects and such. Giving me some ability to organize them by folders along with some general notes, would be useful and something I'd pay a small bit of cash for.

Re: Gitrep - Discover and organize Github repositories

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Post by sevenadrian »

brandoncor wrote: post #25

Funny, I owned this domain until July of this year and was planning to build the exact same thing. I was in my "have an idea, get excited, buy the domain, do nothing, let it expire" phase. Glad to see you picked it up and actually built and launched.

ha, thanks! I knew I was lucky with a useful 6 letter domain. If you have any ideas that you had wanted to implement but don't see please let me know!

and thanks for the domain brandon!

Re: Gitrep - Discover and organize Github repositories

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Post by Hawkee »

niggler wrote: post #21
Hawkee wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can say the same for Twitter, Facebook and Google. There is always the potential for downtime, but users generally don't want to create more accounts. I think the advantages outweigh the disadvantages. Plus, sites that use GitHub logins are much more appealing to developers rather than sites that use Facebook or Twitter logins.

Haha Facebook. On 90% of show HN posts involving Facebook logins the top or second to top comment is something like "Facebook login is a nonstarter"

I can understand that if a facebook login is required, but offering it as a choice shouldn't be frowned upon.

Re: Gitrep - Discover and organize Github repositories

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Post by bink-lynch »

Nice work! That I can organize repositories by my own tags seems very useful and I second the "most up-to-date fork" feature request.

I happened upon a once-in-a-sign-up bug. Here are the steps to reproduce (I cannot reproduce it anymore as it will only happen the first time you need to allow gitrep access to your github profile):

1. Sign in to gitrep. 2. Allow gitrep access to your github profile. 3. Hit the back button until it asks you to allow gitrep access to your github profile again. 4. Hit allow. 5. Notice 500 error.

Re: Gitrep - Discover and organize Github repositories

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Post by troutwine »

sevenadrian wrote: post #35
troutwine wrote: post #32

This sounds neat! > Typically it is not easy to answer questions like "What is the most popular jQuery Instagram library?" or "What Ruby gems are similar to Devise but newer?". > > This is where Gitrep aims to help. But, then, I totally failed to discover how to do that sort of search. The search dialog seems to be tag based. Is the copy aspirational or am I missing something?

creator here! tl;dr: yes, it is a little aspirational as of now, but will change. The first search you can do, since I equate "star count" to popularity, and by default all results are sorted by star count/popularity. The second search will be entirely implemented soon. You can find repos similar to other repos according to their tags, but can't sort by created or updated date yet. The information is there in the dat…

Thanks and good luck! Do you have a twitter account I can follow for updates to gitrep?

Re: Gitrep - Discover and organize Github repositories

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Post by mesm »

sevenadrian wrote: post #35
troutwine wrote: post #32

This sounds neat! > Typically it is not easy to answer questions like "What is the most popular jQuery Instagram library?" or "What Ruby gems are similar to Devise but newer?". > > This is where Gitrep aims to help. But, then, I totally failed to discover how to do that sort of search. The search dialog seems to be tag based. Is the copy aspirational or am I missing something?

creator here! tl;dr: yes, it is a little aspirational as of now, but will change. The first search you can do, since I equate "star count" to popularity, and by default all results are sorted by star count/popularity. The second search will be entirely implemented soon. You can find repos similar to other repos according to their tags, but can't sort by created or updated date yet. The information is there in the dat…

I hope to see something like alternativeto.net too, were you can link multiple items and compare facts about them. I realize this is what can be done with the tags. It can be easier to see which programs are similar than coming up with a unique tag for them though.

Re: Gitrep - Discover and organize Github repositories

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Post by technoweenie »

niggler wrote: post #11
Hawkee wrote: post #9

Very good to see more sites utilizing the GitHub API. I do have a few comments to make though. First, you mention badges on the homepage, but this feature isn't complete so I don't think its even necessary to mention it yet. Second, the search is somewhat confusing. I'd love just a single search box at the top of the site where I can type whatever I'd like. Maybe make the current search the "Advanced Search". Third,…

IMHO it's a bad thing. Too many projects and services depend on github so that downtime represents a systemic risk (homebrew was unusable during the downtime last week). Sure, you have your code backed up, but you don't necessarily have your issue tracker or gists backed up. Now using GitHub for user credentials makes things even worse. Soon we'll see horror stories involving github being down ...

We encourage all GitHub apps to use proper caching on their end. There's no good reason that a hit on a 3rd party site like Gitrep should relate to one or more GitHub API calls. Use HTTP conditional GETs to retrieve data, and any 304's (cache hits) will not impact your rate limit.

Based on its support of tags/searching, I'd imagine Gitrep is being responsible here though.

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