[Noisebridge-discuss] Git and Github

[Asheesh Laroia]

On Sun, 23 Nov 2008, Jonathan Foote wrote:

> http://github.com/ has been getting some buzz lately (is the linux 
> kernel really on git?) Anybody used it? I'd love something lighter than 
> sourceforge, and have significant investment in SVN learning curve. 
> Comments? Appropriate for NB collaborations (open source kinda assumed)?

Github is a proprietary service, run with software that the users can't 
see or modify.

Gitorious.org is the website for an equivalent project run using Free 
Software.

Writes one person on the web: The difference is that "you can fork 
gitorious project from http://gitorious.org/projects/gitorious and show 
your design skills :)"  If you want to run your own private gitorious, you 
can.  (gitorious.noisebridge.net, even...)

I like the benefits of Free Software and open source, and I think 
Noisebridge has those ideals at its heart too.  So, as a totally 
non-binding personal hope, I hope that we NoiseBridge folks prefer 
Gitorious to Github.

http://gitorious.org/about has a little more.

The Gitorious website is less flashy and marketing-y than github's, and 
more straightforward for developers.  My kind of site.

Having said all that, choice of websites notwithstanding - I do like git!

-- Asheesh.

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