Comments on: Communities and Git

By: Symphonious » A Big Forking Problem

Symphonious » A Big Forking Problem — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 13:00:17 +0000

[...] when git and GitHub were relatively new to the mainstream, there was a big discussion about how it promoted forking and was potentially bad for community building. Since then GitHub has well and truly proven that it can successfully support significant community [...]

By: Adrian Sutton

Adrian Sutton — Wed, 06 May 2009 07:39:02 +0000

Ah, so I can. Thinking about it some more, I wonder if what I’m really looking for is a “Status” field. It could be “experimental”, “temporary” or “those other guys are douches and I’m branching out on my own”. :) The Network graph could then de-emphasise the temporary and experimental branches, making it easier to find the “real” ones.

By: Matt Brubeck

Matt Brubeck — Tue, 05 May 2009 22:55:40 +0000

You can edit your forked repository to disable the wiki/issues/downloads sections. But this would indeed be more discoverable if it were offered as an option immediately after creating the fork.

By: Adrian Sutton

Adrian Sutton — Tue, 05 May 2009 20:25:47 +0000

Yeah I pinched the footnotes from Daring Fireball and wrote a plugin for EditLive! that makes them easy to insert. For ages it was broken and I couldn’t be bothered working out what I did to it until recently. It’s nice to have them back.

By: enthusiasm

enthusiasm — Tue, 05 May 2009 18:54:51 +0000

Thanks.

Neat, footnotes.

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