On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 5:16 PM, JeffW <[email protected]> wrote: > > Sorry, I know this is kind of kicking the dead horse, but, git access? > I know you've said before that "you have no plans to provide anything > except subversion access", but I was wondering if you could share the > motivating factor?
Did you perhaps miss the gigantic launch of Mercurial support on Google Code? :-) > Is it that there's some kind of agreement with the subversion people? > Perhaps involving a NDA... in which case you couldn't answer that one. Google Code was written by Subversion developers, sure, but I promise there's no conspiracy . Most of us now use Mercurial for private stuff these days. We're not that close-minded. > > I only ask because the Github site has really taken off lately. With > only a free account, I get cool looking graphs of commit times, > clones, contributors, and a super cool 'network' graph to boot. Their > free service doesn't provide the same kind of storage space that the > almighty Google does, but really it appears to me thats the only > drawback. My point is, if Github and Google were to get together for > coffee... Really cool things could come of it! Did you see the exact same crazy cool Mercurial graphs on Google Code? The exact same github social features that allow you to 'follow' people, make personal server-side 'clones' of any project's repository? Google Code now basically does everything github does, but with hg instead. The two systems (hg and git) are nearly functionally identical. For example, look at: http://code.google.com/p/rovers-day-out/source/list?r=eaf8b115d8b4db31ff4e4aaf9d08188fe43804db > If only Google provided Git access. > Ok, I'm walking away from the horse, and no I don't have any > affiliation with Github other than being a really satisfied user of > their service. The main reason we don't support git is the lack of a (real) HTTP protocol. Git's community is anti-HTTP, and the HTTP implementation they have is extremely bad; it's ~20x slower than mercurial over HTTP (which has a "real" HTTP protocol). We've talked to Sean Pearce (a core git developer on staff here at Google) about the possibility of writing a real HTTP protocol, but it's not clear how much progress he's making on that. In any case, if you want distributed version control with the same features as github, Google Code's Project Hosting is ready to go. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Hosting at Google Code" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-code-hosting?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
