Re: Git for Windows no longer on Google Code

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jul 4, 2014, 17:10 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.1407041908060.14982@s15462909.onlinehome-server.info>
In-Reply-To: <53B6DE5A.8060702@gmail.com>

Hi Jakub,

On Fri, 4 Jul 2014, Jakub Narębski wrote:

> Shouldn't this message be marked [ANNOUNCE] in subject?

Well, I did not exactly announce something.

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> Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>
> > the Git for Windows team, myself included, tried quite a couple of
> > times to mark the old home of Git for Windows on Google Code as
> > obsolete.
> >
> > Unfortunately, it is not possible to disable issue trackers nor
> > downloads (and Google Search helpfully insists on listing them as top
> > hits, still).
> [...]
> 
> Hmmm... Thrust also moved to GitHub, but didn't disable Google Code page...

Good for them.

We had people who *still* downloaded the now thoroughly obsolete versions from Google Code. It was not enough to mark all of the downloads as deprecated, even.

And if things work for Thrust: good for them. Things just happened not to work for the Git for Windows project, is all.

Ciao, Johannes

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