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The social networking aspect comes from the ease with which you can fork repositories and send pull requests. It makes it really easy to see what projects peop
by pius 19y ago
The social networking aspect comes from the ease with which you can fork repositories and send pull requests. It makes it really easy to see what projects people are hacking and it bolsters the sense of community (and easy of code sharing) amongst folks working on the same open source projects.
- davidw 19y agoI too am ignorant of things 'git'. Doesn't the "ease with which you can fork repositories" come from git itself?
- pius 19y agoOh, definitely. But the GitHub guys put a really nice UI on it. It's one of those things that is easy to underestimate until you've actually used it for actively developing an open source project. I've actually met other developers through it, so I guess the proof's in the pudding.