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Re: Github turns five

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Post by IanCal »

aashaykumar92 wrote: post #9

Congrats on 5 years to Github! They are true pioneers for creating a social network for programmers, and not limiting it to just experienced programmers. I barely knew how to program but I was suggested to try Github with the little HTML/CSS/JS I knew and it is been my favorite, not to mention most effective, way to practice to become a better programmer. Collaborating with fellow hackers on projects is more fun than…

"What will make Github irrelevant?"

A stable github?

Edit - this was somewhat flippant, and they do a great job, but when it breaks it can stop me from doing what I need to do next.

Re: Github turns five

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Post by ukandy »

nicholassmith wrote: post #78

Hard to imagine a world without GitHub now, it's become that pervasive. Great service, great people there. Hopefully we'll be saying happy birthday in another 5 years with even more people using it for open source projects.

GitHub really become the standard for open source projects in such a short space of time, even the big name projects felt compelled to switch. Congrats GitHub.

Re: Github turns five

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Post by sergiosgc »

jacquesm wrote: post #38
m_mueller wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Honest question: If it's not for GitHub's community features that get enabled through git's decentralized repository, what does git do for you more than a local SVN server?

> what does git do for you more than a local SVN server? It does less than a local SVN server, there is no server. Git is peer-to-peer, which is a huge advantage. Because it is decentralized you can access your whole repo and its history while off-line. That and easy branching are the main selling points of Git though over time you discover more and more ways in which Git is subtly superior. If I could start over aga…

git-svn does it perfectly. We use it to track OSS projects that use SVN (we use git internally). So far, it has proven to be very reliable.

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Post by DigitalSea »

InclinedPlane wrote: post #77
veidr wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Github is probably one of the biggest innovations in web since Google. I love GitHub as much as the next guy, but 99% of Internet users neither know what git is, nor have any need of it. There are a little more than a million users. (EDIT: well no, there are now 3 million.[2]) By contrast, Google is used by over a billion people every month.[1] [1]: http://www.statista.com/topics/1001/google/chart/899/unique-... [2…

Not to sound too elitist, but github is used by the people who make things, important things. How much has the existence of github contributed to the success of major projects hosted there, such as rails, bootstrap, jquery, node, coffeescript, etc?

Looking at the number of pull requests for any given project I guess is a very good indicator. Looking at the number of closed jQuery pull requests yields a pretty high number: https://github.com/jquery/jquery/pulls?direction=desc&pa... — there's no doubt in my mind that putting Bootstrap on Github is the reason it succeeded as well (look at the number of pull requests, forks and issues raised. Looking at Rails you can see there have been thousands of successfully merged pull requests: https://github.com/rails/rails/pulls?direction=desc&page... — would that number of bugs and features have been addressed if it weren't on Github? I could go on with lists of more high activity repositories, but I think it's more than obvious Github has been a blessing to a lot of open source projects and undoubtedly helped them become more successful and stable (how much is a somewhat subjective and un-measurable thing).

Re: Github turns five

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Post by InclinedPlane »

DigitalSea wrote: post #85
InclinedPlane wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not to sound too elitist, but github is used by the people who make things, important things. How much has the existence of github contributed to the success of major projects hosted there, such as rails, bootstrap, jquery, node, coffeescript, etc?

Looking at the number of pull requests for any given project I guess is a very good indicator. Looking at the number of closed jQuery pull requests yields a pretty high number: https://github.com/jquery/jquery/pulls?direction=desc&pa... — there's no doubt in my mind that putting Bootstrap on Github is the reason it succeeded as well (look at the number of pull requests, forks and issues raised. Looking at Rails you c…

Also look at the other side of the equation, acquisition and installation. How many OSS projects have "git clone " as the first step of their install instructions these days?

Re: Github turns five

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Post by conradfr »

veidr wrote: post #59
DigitalSea wrote: post #56

Github is probably one of the biggest innovations in web since Google. Sourceforge was okay, but it felt clunky and inaccessible, not to mention it lacked really any kind of social aspect. Github brought source control to the mainstream and made open source cool again and made it felt like an actual social thing as opposed to single developers making commits without context to a repository. If it weren't for Github I…

> Github is probably one of the biggest innovations in web since Google. I love GitHub as much as the next guy, but 99% of Internet users neither know what git is, nor have any need of it. There are a little more than a million users. (EDIT: well no, there are now 3 million.[2]) By contrast, Google is used by over a billion people every month.[1] [1]: http://www.statista.com/topics/1001/google/chart/899/unique-... [2…

Somehow you don't even need to know what Git is to browse and download things from Github.

Re: Github turns five

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Post by spmurrayzzz »

IanCal wrote: post #81
aashaykumar92 wrote: post #9

Congrats on 5 years to Github! They are true pioneers for creating a social network for programmers, and not limiting it to just experienced programmers. I barely knew how to program but I was suggested to try Github with the little HTML/CSS/JS I knew and it is been my favorite, not to mention most effective, way to practice to become a better programmer. Collaborating with fellow hackers on projects is more fun than…

"What will make Github irrelevant?" A stable github? Edit - this was somewhat flippant, and they do a great job, but when it breaks it can stop me from doing what I need to do next.

It can stop you, but odds are it doesn't in many cases. IMO this is one of the biggest benefits of git over something like Subversion or CVS: its distributed, so you can continue to work locally while the origin is unreachable.

I can't tell you how many times in my svn past where I couldn't get any work done simply as a result of the repo sever going down or having some other issue affecting its reachability.

At least with git I may not be able to pull commits from origin, but I can still commit locally which is typically enough to keep me productive during outage periods.

Re: Github turns five

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Post by kmfrk »

What I really love about GitHub is that it's one of the really exciting companies that has never really disappointed nor sold out like Twitter did.

I'm as excited about GitHub as ever.

Re: Github turns five

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Post by martinced »

Congratulations and thank you Linus. Thank you so much.

As Linus said (paraphrasing): "I realized that in two weeks I could code something better than any single VCS out there".

Linus' kind of passion and hatred towards mediocrity (CVS and SVN) is a kind of attitude we need more. Not from everybody but from the true creators. Linus is one of these "unreasonable man" upon which progress depends on.

Long life Linus and long life is "vocal" point of views.

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