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Git for Windows no longer on Google Code

Subject: Git for Windows no longer on Google Code

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4 messages between Jul 3, 2014 and Jul 7, 2014.

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Johannes Schindelin· Jul 3, 2014, 15:11 UTC · lore

Dear friends of Git,

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).

It is not even possible to forward to a new project home: we tried literally twenty times to hit the "Project moved" button with the new URL -- http://msysgit.github.io/ -- but all it did was reset the URL to "http://" and give a "500. That's an error." when browsing the old URL.

The link supposedly allowing to report the error leads to a read-only knowledge base with no way to inform any responsible developer of the bug.

The only way was to delete the old project home, with no automatic redirection and no hint for users where to look instead.

Therefore it is with great sadness that I have to resort to sending this mail and hoping that it reaches at least a part of the people who are from now on undoubtedly surprised to see a "Google. One account. All of Google." page instead of being forwarded to http://msysgit.github.io/.

I am seriously sorry about the inconvenience, wishing there was anything I could do about this, Johannes

Jakub Narębski· Jul 4, 2014, 17:03 UTC · re: Johannes Schindelin · lore

Re: Git for Windows no longer on Google Code

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

Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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> Dear friends of Git,
>
> 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...

> Therefore it is with great sadness that I have to resort to sending this
> mail and hoping that it reaches at least a part of the people who are from
> now on undoubtedly surprised to see a "Google. One account. All of
> Google." page instead of being forwarded to http://msysgit.github.io/.

-- 
Jakub Narębski

Johannes Schindelin· Jul 4, 2014, 17:10 UTC · re: Jakub Narębski · lore

Re: Git for Windows no longer on Google Code

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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Robert Dailey· Jul 7, 2014, 22:03 UTC · re: Johannes Schindelin · lore

Re: Git for Windows no longer on Google Code

Have you tried contacting Google? They will usually help with search results when it comes to popular links.

On Thursday, July 3, 2014 10:11:41 AM UTC-5, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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>
> Dear friends of Git, 
>
> 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). 
>
> It is not even possible to forward to a new project home: we tried 
> literally twenty times to hit the "Project moved" button with the new URL 
> -- http://msysgit.github.io/ -- but all it did was reset the URL to 
> "http://" and give a "500. That's an error." when browsing the old URL. 
>
> The link supposedly allowing to report the error leads to a read-only 
> knowledge base with no way to inform any responsible developer of the bug. 
>
> The only way was to delete the old project home, with no automatic 
> redirection and no hint for users where to look instead. 
>
> Therefore it is with great sadness that I have to resort to sending this 
> mail and hoping that it reaches at least a part of the people who are from 
> now on undoubtedly surprised to see a "Google. One account. All of 
> Google." page instead of being forwarded to http://msysgit.github.io/. 
>
> I am seriously sorry about the inconvenience, wishing there was anything 
> I could do about this, 
> Johannes 
>

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