Dear Sandeep, On Tue, Mar 03, 2015 at 09:53:42AM +1100, Sandeep Murthy wrote: > In CONTRIBUTING.md I think you should consider changing the instructions to > recommend HTTPS over plain Git for cloning - there’s no server verification > with
github does not provide "plain" git protocol, so it is either https or ssh. I'd recomment using ssh, as one can use ssh-agent to avoid typing the passphrase over and over again. HTH, Dima > Git, whereas HTTPS does this using CAs, plus depending on where you are the > Git protocol may not even work, whereas HTTPS generally works everywhere. > Pushing via HTTPS requires your GitHub password and this is good for code > integrity. > > HTTPS is also GitHub's recommended protocol for cloning repos. > > Sandeep Murthy > s.mur...@mykolab.com > > > On 3 Mar 2015, at 01:15, Markus Pfeiffer <markus.pfeif...@morphism.de> > > wrote: > > > > Dear all, > > > > Since last Friday there exists an up-to-date copy of the GAP source code on > > github.com under > > > > https://github.com/gap-system/gap > > > > This will be the official development repository for GAP as of now, and GAP > > 4.8 and all future versions of GAP will be made from this repository. > > > > For those interested in HPC-GAP there is a branch in the repository that > > contains the current source code of HPC-GAP. Alas, at this point it doesn't > > compile as it is from the repository as it is missing a dependency. We hope > > to > > resolve this very soon. > > > > We invite everyone to contribute bugreports, bugfixes, documentation, > > documentation fixes, and code to GAP via so-called "issues" and "pull > > requests" > > on github. > > > > There is some guidance on how we would like contributions to work in the > > file > > > > https://github.com/gap-system/gap/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md > > > > If you have any questions, or suggestions for GAP, the repository, or > > documentation, > > feel free to contact us via the GAP mailing list g...@gap-system.org, or > > submit an > > issue or a pull request on github. > > > > We are looking forward to hearing from you! > > > > Cheers, > > Markus > > _______________________________________________ > > Forum mailing list > > Forum@mail.gap-system.org > > http://mail.gap-system.org/mailman/listinfo/forum > > _______________________________________________ > Forum mailing list > Forum@mail.gap-system.org > http://mail.gap-system.org/mailman/listinfo/forum _______________________________________________ Forum mailing list Forum@mail.gap-system.org http://mail.gap-system.org/mailman/listinfo/forum
