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I'm taking a closer look at github, seems like a great site.
Who here uses github, or has at least landed there a couple times?

I have landed there a few times, the official Facebook SDK is there as a few other items I have run across. I am not really a fan, its very busy and pretty cluttered.

The "fork" system is confusing at first; Not sure if I want to spend too much time learning the details.

Github could be good for hosting a (open-source) .zip file, which others can access, without you needing to worry about up-time, server-load, or bandwidth at your own site.

I prefer codeplex it's like sourceforge but is way better, and supports tfs

^^^
CodePlex is Microsoft's open source project hosting web site.
M$ runs an Open-(Source forge) ?
Nice to see they joined the free world.

What is tfs, Team Foundation Server?
OK, so what is Team Foundation Server?

EDIT:
Team Foundation Server automates and streamlines the software delivery process for all team members.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/ff637362.aspx

Can't you do just as well with open source solutions?*
*Team Foundation Server is for Visual Studio

Tommyk works in both worlds!
Which one do you like better Open or M-$oft?

I'm using github, see for example http://github.com/frostschutz/Google-SEO

It's great if you like git and if you do Open Source. I wouldn't use it if I wasn't using git anyway though.

Erm SVN is awful with VS, because if it checks in an adds ".mine>>>>" it can break the application forever. Also it allows you to merge changes etc...

(2010-12-06, 10:55 AM)frostschutz Wrote: [ -> ]I'm using github, see for example http://github.com/frostschutz/Google-SEO

It's great if you like git and if you do Open Source. I wouldn't use it if I wasn't using git anyway though.

To only test downloading (not concerned with updates / versions), I tried this:

# Not a git command, just testing download of .zip

wget https://github.com/frostschutz/Google-SEO.git
and
wget --no-check-certificate https://github.com/frostschutz/Google-SEO.git

Both ways gave errors, the first error said to use "--no-check-certificate"
So for Github links, wget doesn't do a simple download?

(2010-12-06, 02:08 PM)seeker Wrote: [ -> ]wget https://github.com/frostschutz/Google-SEO.git

I usually just use git clone...

Quote:So for Github links, wget doesn't do a simple download?

That's just the https certificate... not sure why wget does not like it.

I believe git goes through SSH, so you wouldn't try retrieving the repository via HTTP. Of course, Github does offer packages, so you could download those if you can only use HTTP.

Git, being decentralised, means that you're not really locked to Github, so you can always move somewhere else if you don't like them (if you use their features, like issue tracker etc, it may take more effort), so really, there's not too much of a downside to using them. And they even provide you with the ability to delete the repo there if you really hate them.