On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 3:30 PM, aestetix aestetix <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aestetix@gmail.com">aestetix@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hmm. I have very mixed feelings about this, although my opinion is
observational at best as I don't contribute to any Noisebridge
repositories.<br>
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Some things to keep in mind though: there's currently a very complicated
argument going on about digital ownership, especially in the United
States. What happens if github decides to suspend access to the Noisebridge account, or they hand over access IP addresses to the government and don't tell anyone?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>What if?</div><div>
<br></div><div>One of the beauties of DVCSes is that they ususally store the entire commit history in each checkout. This way, even if Github takes down our account for whatever reason, every single checkout can be used to rebuild the history of the project somewhere.</div>
<div>That said, you would lose all the metadata about the project that's stored inside of Github itself (comments, pull requests, etc.)</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I don't really care about the mini-control war between hg and git, except to point out that there are solutions that can be locally hosted.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>I only picked github, as I wanted somewhere I could put small projects without having to worry about attracting tons of traffic to pony. The upside is that people can very easily start collaborating, commenting, or filing bugs on things.</div>
<div>Heck, there's an "edit" button in the browser there.</div><div><br></div><div>--j</div></div>