Re: git-scm.com (was Re: Git graph on GitHub)

From: Aaron Cohen <aaron@assonance.org>
Date: Oct 15, 2008, 21:04 UTC
Message-ID: <727e50150810151404i5c70b7d7u380da947169db6a7@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20081015201230.GA9534@garry-x300.arpnetworks.com>

On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 4:12 PM, Garry Dolley <gdolley@arpnetworks.com> wrote:

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> On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 11:36:10AM -0700, PJ Hyett wrote:
>> > Coming up in news at 6...
>> >
>> > GitHub announces new maintainer for Git
>> >
>> > GitHub is proud to announce the replacement of the old Git maintainer with
>> > the "Git Core Team", comprising PJ Hyett, Scott Chacon, Tom Preston and some
>> > select personalities from the Ruby on Rails world. You'll be able to track
>> > all the latest updates to "Git Edge" over at GitHub. The former maintainer,
>> > Junio C Hamano, is being retired from service because the Git community (see
>> > git-scm.com) decided he wasn't as good-looking as David Heinemeier Hanson.
>> > For more information, see the official Git book (book.git-scm.com).
>>
>> In case there was any confusion, this is why we almost never bother
>> posting to the list, because no matter what the topic, it always turns
>> into why the git community hates GitHub.
>
> For the record, I'm a part of the git community and I like GitHub
> quite a bit. :)
>

For the record, I'm not part of either community and find things to dislike about both of them.

git.or.cz: I personally prefer its plain style, but it has way too much information on the front page (why is so much download information on that page rather than hidden behind the "download" link that currently just goes to an ftp directory?)

git-scm.com: Much better organized, but suffers from web 2.0 shininess. Also, every time I look at it my eyes have to read EVERYTHING to figure out what ANYTHING is. For instance, why is there that random column of "projects using git" that seems to only exist to distract me from the important stuff?