Already tried it, and I absolutely love it!
It was something we were waiting for for a long time. Now GitHub is light years ahead of its competitors because of this -seemingly small, but actually important- UX change.
Upload files to your repositories
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#72I think this is a great step, for several reasons -- both corporate and user-facing. (1) It is true that this is more likely to turn GitHub into a generic file-dump place similar to DropBox. GitHub's infrastructure is sufficiently good to handle this, and this new addition is unlikely to disrupt the workflow of veteran users. However, since it is likely that some companies will use GitHub for file dumping, GitHub wil…
> (3) Obviously, it'll make GitHub far more accessible to less technical users I'd have to imagine this is probably the main driving factor. As GitHub tries to make further inroad into Enterprise, I can see them focusing more and more on making things more accessible to non programmers (project managers, secretaries, etc.) I really won't be surprised if 5 or 6 iterations down the road, you'll have the option to chang…
The current landing page format has long been an annoying thorn. Only having a one line summary and URL "above the fold" is a terrible UX for people just arriving at a new repo. I wish they'd add a reactive layout for widescreen displays that shows the README and dev info side by side.
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#73All I want is a Wiki search.... pretty please. Wiki file uploads (images) at very minimum that aren't commited to git. The process now is to create an empty issue, drag the file over, copy the URL and paste it into the Wiki page.
Why not ditch the Gollum wiki and just use the main git repo with relative links? It also renders markdown files. https://github.com/blog/1395-relative-links-in-markup-files
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#74Why doesn't github have a proper discussion forum per project? I don't consider the "issues" a proper discussion forum. That seems to me like it would be much more valuable, specially for community projects.
Presumably because discussion forums aren't anyone at Github's expertise. They're a whole product of their own.
Re: Upload files to your repositories
#75I think this is a great step, for several reasons -- both corporate and user-facing. (1) It is true that this is more likely to turn GitHub into a generic file-dump place similar to DropBox. GitHub's infrastructure is sufficiently good to handle this, and this new addition is unlikely to disrupt the workflow of veteran users. However, since it is likely that some companies will use GitHub for file dumping, GitHub wil…
regarding point (2) I feel like https://gist.github.com/ fulfills that requirement. With a gist you're able to quickly and easily upload a single file script (or multiple files). Also once created you can clone it as a git repo and make updates and push back to it (e.g. add files etc). Also people can fork your gist just like git repos. I like this approach rather than creating a "new repository" on github for small…
I think sort of the implication here is he's just coded up something that may be a starting point for something that will later involve more files - just makes it easy to do the initial repo setup.
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#76Re: Upload files to your repositories
#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
You mean .org files, right? :-) I keep notes on Github that never touch a filesystem. I do my edits from a phone or tablet. If I have a lot to write, I'll use an app then copy directly into Github. Most of my notes are personal but I started breaking them out a couple weeks ago so I could keep them in public repos. https://github.com/melling/ErgonomicNotes https://github.com/melling/EditorNotes Why not work directly…
Question: What benefit do you derive from using org mode format if you aren't editing it in Emacs, where you can collapse and expand?
...what do you mean... not in Emacs...
Real answer, though not who you were replying to: Org mode syntax is more appealing to me, particularly the wiki-style links. I liked it enough to use it before I used Emacs with vim-org but it was lacking so I'm happy enough editing with either Emacs on the desktop, in the browser (Github Wiki), or in Editorial (iPhone). Editorial actually does collapse/expand for Markdown so it would be nice to have that for .org files too, but I would put up with a lot of crap as long as I can work with my files in Emacs 10% of the time.
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#78Why doesn't github have a proper discussion forum per project? I don't consider the "issues" a proper discussion forum. That seems to me like it would be much more valuable, specially for community projects.
Presumably because discussion forums aren't anyone at Github's expertise. They're a whole product of their own.
This argument could be made against wikis and issues and static websites (and file uploads).
I think a discussion forum is integral to any open source project. People traditionally use mailing lists, which have an awful UX in my opinion. A moderately better alternative is google groups, which is basically just a nicer UI for a mailing list.
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#79As someone who makes a lot of casual edits via the web interface, I was really sad that to fix an image file once, I had to install the desktop client and clone the entire repo. This is a great change.
Re: Upload files to your repositories
#80I think this is a great step, for several reasons -- both corporate and user-facing. (1) It is true that this is more likely to turn GitHub into a generic file-dump place similar to DropBox. GitHub's infrastructure is sufficiently good to handle this, and this new addition is unlikely to disrupt the workflow of veteran users. However, since it is likely that some companies will use GitHub for file dumping, GitHub wil…
Right, because Dropbox is so hot right now as a company and a business. Meanwhile, Atlassian's IPO went very well. Even though I hate JIRA I understand why many people need it. GitHub offers nothing on the project management layer and turning GitHub into generic file-dump is a good way to kill the company. GitHub needs to offer project management on top of git, not silly WYSIWYG features.