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Re: Upload files to your repositories

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Post by imron »

sdesol wrote: post #64
imron wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, as long as we're discussing search wish lists, I'd love case-sensitive search.

Just an FYI, my product solves yours and your parent post wish: http://gitsense.github.io/ Search/code management metrics are done at the branch level and there will be case-sensitive searches. The indexers are already building case sensitive indexes, it's just that it hasn't been enabled. Unfortunately I can't say when the indexer will be available for private use at the moment. Edit: Forgot to mention that because…

Looks interesting.

I'll return the FYI and let you know it wasn't immediately obvious that there were arrows I could click on to see what else it was your product can do.

Re: Upload files to your repositories

#82

Post by sdesol »

imron wrote: post #81
sdesol wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just an FYI, my product solves yours and your parent post wish: http://gitsense.github.io/ Search/code management metrics are done at the branch level and there will be case-sensitive searches. The indexers are already building case sensitive indexes, it's just that it hasn't been enabled. Unfortunately I can't say when the indexer will be available for private use at the moment. Edit: Forgot to mention that because…

Looks interesting. I'll return the FYI and let you know it wasn't immediately obvious that there were arrows I could click on to see what else it was your product can do.

Thanks for the feedback. I've had a sneaky suspicion that people weren't really getting a full idea of what the product does. I've been meaning to add more visual cues like dots on top of the image to indicate that there are multiple pictures/feature highlights.

Re: Upload files to your repositories

#83

Post by radlad »

sushisource wrote: post #75
bitshiter wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Even still, Gists are repositories. Just add a new remote and push.

Re: Upload files to your repositories

#84

Post by NKCSS »

gechr wrote: post #62
johnloeber wrote: post #55

I 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…

With regards to (1), being a file-dump place: it's worth noting that GitHub currently imposes soft (50MB) and hard (100MB) size limits per single file[1]. If you try to push a file that exceeds either of these limits from the command line, you'll receive a response from the remote server pointing you in the direction of their Large File Storage (LFS) service[2], which they charge for beyond the free 1GB storage/bandw…

This is probably as a DoS protection; accepting large responses have always been a vector. They could work around this by having some additional logic fire beforehand to prevent it becoming an attack vector.

Re: Upload files to your repositories

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Post by SmellyGeekBoy »

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.

> At least I really hope I can stop dealing with the "asset_1", "asset_1-2", "asset_1_USETHISONE" that some people do.

My personal favourite is "asset_1_$TODAYSDATE", where $TODAYSDATE is inevitably in DDMMYY format and therefore completely useless as far as sorting is concerned...

Re: Upload files to your repositories

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Post by lucaspiller »

melling wrote: post #22
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…

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…

> Why not work directly in the version controlled cloud?

What do you do if you need to work offline? You are on a plane and forget to sync something, or for whatever reason you can't access to repository (maybe China is DDOSing GitHub again?). This is also one of my main gripes about cloud based editors, it's great if you have internet access but if you don't or you have a poor connection (e.g. public wifi) you are SOL.

I use Write (iOS) and NVAlt (OS X) which sync via Dropbox, so I always have a local copy of my notes.

> no backups to worry about

Please don't solely rely on companies to store your data. They can and do lose peoples files [0].

[0] - http://www.zdnet.com/article/dropbox-sync-glitch-results-in-...

Re: Upload files to your repositories

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Post by melling »

lucaspiller wrote: post #87
melling wrote: post #22

Earlier 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…

> Why not work directly in the version controlled cloud? What do you do if you need to work offline? You are on a plane and forget to sync something, or for whatever reason you can't access to repository (maybe China is DDOSing GitHub again?). This is also one of my main gripes about cloud based editors, it's great if you have internet access but if you don't or you have a poor connection (e.g. public wifi) you are S…

People lose data too at a much greater frequency. if you're paranoid about Github, create crown jobs to automatically pull your repos.
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