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

From: PJ Hyett <pjhyett@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 15, 2008, 18:36 UTC
Message-ID: <bab6a2ab0810151136n4f997890qd418277ea8c4aea4@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20C9ABEC-52E5-405E-A755-C58A6359D7A9@wincent.com>

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> Coming up in news at 6...
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> GitHub announces new maintainer for Git
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> 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.

I really don't understand the disdain for a company that's made git accessible to a much wider audience in less than a year. I kinda thought we'd all be on the same team.

For the record, Scott wasn't a GitHub employee when he wrote git-scm.com, nor was he paid to produce it. Turns out people don't always have ulterior motives, he just wanted to make a better git homepage.

-PJ