Comments on: Git, Ditz and Microformats http://morethanseven.net/posts/git-ditz-and-microformats/ Morethanseven is where Gareth Rushgrove plays with the web Fri, 08 Aug 2008 21:02:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: elliottcable http://morethanseven.net/posts/git-ditz-and-microformats/#comment-8660 elliottcable Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:22:49 +0000 http://morethanseven.net/?p=214#comment-8660 What you said is so true, about git being social. It's amazing how GitHub started as a site to store your code, a central repository for a central-repository-less system... and became a sort of Facebook or VIRB for coders. I find myself leaving comments on commits all over the place, contributing thought if not actual code to a MULTITUDE of projects across the entire site... and loving every moment of it! Not only that, but it has real code implications, as you mentioned. This evening, I saw something I didn't like (a small library called Soup, which I had never heard of, and will probably never even use, was badly organized) - I forked it, cloned my fork, and went to re-organizing. Maybe a total of two or three minutes before I was in a text editor. Then, when I was satisfied, I checked it all in, and pushed it off to my fork... and then popped off a pull request to the original author. In total, maybe 10 minutes not spent in the text editor. It's something I would never have done under SVN, or even under Gitorious (due to not noticing the project the way I did on GitHub, through a train of idle browsing through my friends' histories of commenting and commiting). It's just... amazing. What you said is so true, about git being social.

It’s amazing how GitHub started as a site to store your code, a central repository for a central-repository-less system… and became a sort of Facebook or VIRB for coders. I find myself leaving comments on commits all over the place, contributing thought if not actual code to a MULTITUDE of projects across the entire site… and loving every moment of it!

Not only that, but it has real code implications, as you mentioned. This evening, I saw something I didn’t like (a small library called Soup, which I had never heard of, and will probably never even use, was badly organized) – I forked it, cloned my fork, and went to re-organizing. Maybe a total of two or three minutes before I was in a text editor. Then, when I was satisfied, I checked it all in, and pushed it off to my fork… and then popped off a pull request to the original author. In total, maybe 10 minutes not spent in the text editor. It’s something I would never have done under SVN, or even under Gitorious (due to not noticing the project the way I did on GitHub, through a train of idle browsing through my friends’ histories of commenting and commiting).

It’s just… amazing.

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