[Noisebridge-discuss] Git and Github

[Andy Isaacson]

On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 08:37:13PM -0500, Jonathan Foote wrote:
> http://github.com/ has been getting some buzz lately (is the linux
> kernel really on git?)

Yes, the Linux community uses git.

> Anybody used it?

I have, but only a bit.

> I'd love something lighter
> than sourceforge, and have significant investment in SVN learning
> curve. Comments? Appropriate for NB collaborations (open source kinda
> assumed)?

I'm using Mercurial -- http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/ .  It's rather
similar to git, and predates it by a bit (both in earliest release and
in achieving a minimal usable state) but has a smaller userbase due to
the fact that Linus started git.  I find hg easier to use and to extend
than git, although the worst of git's UI badness has been fixed in the
latest releases.

I've been hosting some noisebridge-related repos on my personal server,
mostly because we don't have a public netblock delivered to 83c yet.

http://hg.hexapodia.org/

-andy