I am interested in a rather old program -- first version was written more than 40 years ago -- in the Algol era!
Its gone through various IBM/CDC machines until it ran on Irix in the 90s and briefly Windows until .Net 2003. After that its not exactly runnable. As may be evident the original programmer is elderly and while spunky, not exactly upto dealing with modern technology. He has shown interest in working with some of us who want his codebase modernized. So far thats not really relevant to git-usage. The issue that is a bit non-standard from git pov is that there is no clear starting tarball because some of the stuff is so old. So while we work on cleaning up and getting compiles through he is scrounging around for missing files (code and data). So should I handle this with git tools like branches, tags etc or just maybe keep a directory called original-stuff and put things there as they are found/provided? The other (minor) issue is whether to use bitbucket or github. I myself prefer bitbucket but would be interested to know others' findings on pros and cons. Rusi -- http://blog.languager.org -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
