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

From: Scott Chacon <schacon@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 15, 2008, 16:21 UTC
Message-ID: <d411cc4a0810150921j198fda93j60dae04c4cc9b9d1@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20C9ABEC-52E5-405E-A755-C58A6359D7A9@wincent.com>

Hi,

On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 3:34 AM, Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com> wrote:

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> El 15/10/2008, a las 12:18, PJ Hyett escribió:
>
>>> One nitpick regarding your git.git mirror: I doubt that people here
>>> ("the community") consider git-scm.com to be "the git homepage". I don't
>>> want to go into the reasons and start a pointless thread, but since
>>> git-scm.com is a fork of git.or.cz pointing to the latter (the root)
>>> should make everyone happy.

There is a slight misperception here. I setup the git mirror at GitHub as part of my git-scm.com work, they did not do it as some sort of semi-official mirror. The reason the git.git repo points to git-scm is because I had plans to use github apis to do some fun stuff on git-scm, and the mirror is being kept up to date by scripts on the git-scm server. Also, I figured it was likely that people looking at the git repo on GitHub rather than on kernel.org would probably be more interested in the more user-friendly version, yes? That's all, it's nothing sinister. Petr and I have previously discussed trying to unify the sites somehow and will likely discuss this in more detail at the GitTogether in a few weeks.

Also, trust me - none of us want Junio's job. I've talked way too much with Shawn over the last few weeks to ever covet that position :)

I do wish that there wasn't this 'us vs them' mentality on this list, though. I think GitHub is doing some good things for the community, and I also think that 'the community' is bigger than this list. I propose that we spend our cycles on git stuff, rather than mocking or trying to exclude each other.

Also, I think we can all agree that Junio is strikingly handsome.

Scott

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>>
>> Hi Michael,
>> I'll go ahead and start a pointless thread along with the reasons
>> provided via answers to the 2008 Git Survey[1]:
>
> 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).
>
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