PHP will switch to git
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PHP will switch to git
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Re: PHP will switch to git
#2Rasmus gave a talk yesterday and I asked if they were switching to github. He said they'd likely switch to git (it's now happening, apparently), but not github because it can't do ACLs and the PHP project has thousands of people who need commit access to various places.
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#3i hope they'll follow the trend and move it to github!
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#4i hope they'll follow the trend and move it to github!
Why?
Re: PHP will switch to git
#5Rasmus gave a talk yesterday and I asked if they were switching to github. He said they'd likely switch to git (it's now happening, apparently), but not github because it can't do ACLs and the PHP project has thousands of people who need commit access to various places.
exactly, they want to keep their karma system. But a github mirror is not unlikely.
Oh, and that's the reason why the mail states that they'll now figure out how to move php-src to git.
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#6Re: PHP will switch to git
#7i hope they'll follow the trend and move it to github!
Why?
What treffer said. It'll be like the old days of sourceforge, just better and simpler. I love how easy it is to commit to projects on github. Also love the idea of a centralized place to follow all your favorite projects. If linux can be on github i would think php could as well.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why?
because github is one of the most visible and most visited source hosting sites?
I still don't get your point. It's the most visited source hosting site, no doubt about that, so...?
On the subject of the topic, I'm getting tired of this git euforia. The linked message says zero about the reason beyond a simple direct voting. So, for no reason they decided to have a voting and ignore the reasons why people vote whatever they did? Sounds like a pretty useless voting for me. Well, except if you want to be popular and use all the tools the cool kids use these days, I guess that's a valid reason. Something tells me that there will be less 'I'm too cool to say positive things about PHP' kind of threads in HN.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why?
What treffer said. It'll be like the old days of sourceforge, just better and simpler. I love how easy it is to commit to projects on github. Also love the idea of a centralized place to follow all your favorite projects. If linux can be on github i would think php could as well.
PHP has been mirrored on github for awhile already if you want to follow it and stuff: https://github.com/php
I don't see what difference having a git.php.net repo vs a github one will make. It's the same vcs...
Re: PHP will switch to git
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why?
What treffer said. It'll be like the old days of sourceforge, just better and simpler. I love how easy it is to commit to projects on github. Also love the idea of a centralized place to follow all your favorite projects. If linux can be on github i would think php could as well.
>I love how easy it is to commit to projects on github
It's as simple to commit projects to github as it is to sf, bitbucket, google code, etc. Wait... you need to set up ssh credentials on github... sorry, it's more difficult to commit a project to github than it is to most of the alternatives.
>Also love the idea of a centralized place to follow all your favorite projects.
It's good that we like different things. I love the FACT that there can't be such place, it's technically not possible, fortunately!
>If linux can be on github i would think php could as well.
Linux is not on github, Linus Torvalds has one of his branches of the linux kernel on github, doesn't mean that he doesn't push his commits to other places too, which he certainly does. Also, linux is much more than the kernel, and its bits are hosted in literally thousands of different places. Finally, you can maintain your branch of the linux kernel wherever you wish, there's no mystical force forcing everybody to use Linus', you can use whatever kernel build you want from whatever sources you want. So saying "linux is on github" is a rather vague sentence.
Don't get me wrong, I like github, I would hate not having a reason to. It appears to me that most of the people don't relaly know why they like github. Because it's popular maybe?