A new home: GitHub

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A new home: GitHub

August 18th, 2009 by ravi

I am now in the process of moving all my source code to GitHub, an online public repository built on top of the Git version control system. This service includes an internal issue-tracking module, so I will be slowly retiring ahrencode.16bugs.com over the next week or two (16bugs is a great site/service that I greatly recommend to anyone looking for a bug tracker — I am moving not due to any dissatisfaction with them, but because I want to take advantage of GitHub’s tools). What this means is that you can, if you are so inclined, both track my progress online (view known issues, upcoming features and even the changes I make to the code) as well as access the source code, in all its revisions including the latest bleeding edge (which is of course recommended only for the adventurous). If you are a coder and Git aware, and if you have plans to fork the code for some reason, please chat with me.

(yes the email address blurring is an utter FAIL ;-))

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Matt Rude writes:
August 23rd, 2009 at 4:33 pm

I think your going to love github.com, I switched there about 3 or 4 months ago and haven’t looked back. Git is just works better then subversion and with the ability to work with your repository off line, and it’s branching functions, it’s just amazing how much more functionality you and up with.

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- ravi writes:
  August 24th, 2009 at 4:40 pm
  
  Matt, thank you for the comment. Github is quite sexy (or I am easily aroused ;-)), and the Issue Tracker is a great add-on. I am a Git newbie, so its been an interesting learning experience thus far. Haven’t got into the hairy business of branching etc, yet. Heck, I haven’t even figured out how to add a tag yet.
  
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  - Matt Rude writes:
    August 25th, 2009 at 12:20 am
    
    Git is just so easy
    
    git tag -a -m “tagging version 1.0″ 1.0
    
    Then you need to push it to github
    
    git push –tags
    
    check out github’s online help, it’s vary good.
    http://github.com/guides/home
    
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    - ravi writes:
      August 25th, 2009 at 10:11 am
      
      Matt, thanks for the quick tip. I have already started reading up on the GitHub help. I watched a video of Linus @ Google pitching Git, but Linus being Linus it was more polemic than edification ;-).
      
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