On Tue, 5 Apr 2011 15:42:55 -0700, "Eli Stevens (Gmail)" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 10:27 PM, Andreas Kloeckner > <[email protected]> wrote: > > This has been requested a number of times--I must admit that I don't get > > it. What does github offer that you don't get from plain git and a > > mailing list? > > My view, as someone who has used github for personal projects, with > private repositories for work, and to make (minor) contributions to > other open source projects, is that github doesn't so much allow you > to do anything that you couldn't have done with git and a mailing > list, but generally lowers the difficulty of doing things (in some > cases drastically - pull requests are to patch emails what git > branching is to CVS branching, for example ;). I have a hard time > imagining a situation where I, personally, would host a git repo > myself rather than use github (I think that they've done a good job of > mitigating strong reasons not to). > > Much of the code behind github is closed source, so if you're a purist > about that kind of thing, it might not be the best choice. There are > clones out there (some full open source), however, the community > inertia and the feature lead make those a hard sell, IMHO.
Git hosting is pretty replaceable. I'm not too offended by their being closed source. I personally don't yet see why I should care, but you guys seem to--so why not. https://github.com/inducer Those repositories should automatically stay up-to-date with my self-hosted ones without me having to think about them. Let me know if they start lagging behind. Andreas
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