Ryan's Inter-Online Web Blog - Latest comments on Cool new-to-me stuff from the past few whiles http://blog.hoopycat.com/?disp=comments en-US http://backend.userland.com/rss 60 Ryan [Member] in response to: Cool new-to-me stuff from the past few whiles Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:22:08 +0000 Ryan [Member] c182@http://blog.hoopycat.com/ The simple and most accurate answer is "my friends use github, so I might as well too."<br /> <br /> I find git's concepts rather appealing, especially for the sort of off-the-wall, rapid, niche projects I like to do. GitHub feeds into this by being built *for* git: I can fork a project in seconds flat, hammer away at it for awhile, and fling it back to them quickly and easily.<br /> <br /> Why git over CVS/Subversion/etc? A tough question to answer. I've tried pretty much every free revision control system that has come along over the years, and never really latched on as well as I could have. I think my problem is that I want to have One Tool for both local revision control (homework, documents, workstation configuration files, etc) and "real" projects hosted on a centralized server. RCS was the former, CVS was the latter, and Subversion tried to bridge the gap but it still smelled like CVS. Git has gone with the local-revision-control-first approach, which is nice for how I work.<br /> <br /> I was also very happy when the initial GitHub signup process requested my ssh public key. I've invested some time into making my ssh infrastructure practically automatic, and it's nice to see that being put to work ;-)
I find git's concepts rather appealing, especially for the sort of off-the-wall, rapid, niche projects I like to do. GitHub feeds into this by being built *for* git: I can fork a project in seconds flat, hammer away at it for awhile, and fling it back to them quickly and easily.

Why git over CVS/Subversion/etc? A tough question to answer. I've tried pretty much every free revision control system that has come along over the years, and never really latched on as well as I could have. I think my problem is that I want to have One Tool for both local revision control (homework, documents, workstation configuration files, etc) and "real" projects hosted on a centralized server. RCS was the former, CVS was the latter, and Subversion tried to bridge the gap but it still smelled like CVS. Git has gone with the local-revision-control-first approach, which is nice for how I work.

I was also very happy when the initial GitHub signup process requested my ssh public key. I've invested some time into making my ssh infrastructure practically automatic, and it's nice to see that being put to work ;-)]]> http://blog.hoopycat.com/2009/06/cool-new-to-me-stuff-from-the-past-few-w#c182 James Sweet [Visitor] in response to: Cool new-to-me stuff from the past few whiles Mon, 29 Jun 2009 08:16:38 +0000 James Sweet [Visitor] c181@http://blog.hoopycat.com/ So what exactly is the difference between GitHub and something like SourceForge? <div class="postsnapdiv"> <p class="postsnapptag">On Jun 28, James Sweet wrote "<a href="http://nojesusnopeas.blogspot.com/2009/06/more-thoughts-on-gun-control.html" title="read James Sweet's blog post">More thoughts on gun control</a>".</p></div>

On Jun 28, James Sweet wrote "More thoughts on gun control".

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