Thanks, Sarah. Very good reasons! I somehow had the feeling that you'd respond as well, since you have been so active within the Ruby community. ;-)
Yes, I agree, it would be a good decision to move away from Subversion in the near future. Don't know the implications that would have for the automated build process. On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 1:31 AM, Sarah Allen <[email protected]> wrote: > 1) awesome collaboration -- for example, I could fork the repo on github, > develop some experimental video feature, you and sebastian could test it and > submit changes, then we could send a pull request to max who could integrate > it into the main repo -- all of this is automatically published on github > with easy web access as well as the git command-line tools I use locally > 2) full access to history offline > 3) ability to commit offline > 4) you can stiff use the P4 diff tool > 5) very nice viz tools on github: > http://www.ultrasaurus.com/sarahblog/2009/04/sf-ruby-meetup/#github > > I would be so delighted if OL moved to Github :) > > On Jun 19, 2010, at 3:41 PM, Raju Bitter wrote: > >> Max, you have more experience with GitHub. Based on your experience, >> what are the top reasons to use GitHub instead of SVN? The biggest >> advantage to seems to be the ease and speed of switching between >> branches, as well as the community around GitHub. But I'd like to hear >> your opinion. And anyone else who has Git experience, comments are >> welcome. How does Git compare to Mercurial? I've used used Mercurial, >> and the concept seems to be more in line with what I know from SVN. > >
