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Ask HN: Have you seen any cool / innovative uses of git and/or github?

11 points by chunkyslink 15y ago

I'm doing a presentation on Monday about git and github. I wanted to finish with a roundup of interesting uses for both. One example would be that I saw someone using Github as their blog. Any others?

rawsyntax 15y ago
what you saw was probably github pages, it's not really innovative, it's actually built into the site
gvb 15y ago
git-annex http://kitenet.net/~joey/blog/entry/databranches/ http://kitenet.net/~joey/blog/entry/databranches/ "databranches: using git as a database" http://git-annex.branchable.com/ http://git-annex.branchable.com/ "git-annex is a git subcommand that allows tracking large files in git -- without the bother of feeding their contents into the git repository!"
- RexRollman 15y ago
  Joey Hess keeps his home directory in git, if I recall correctly.
beagle3 15y ago
bup is a backup system by Avery Pennarun (apenwarr). It is "the awesome" - it is fast, de-duplicating, awesome, and yet a regular git repository. sparkleshare is a dropbox-like system that uses git as a back end (Mac OSX and Linux only for now)
choochootrain 15y ago
flashbake is version control for writers based off git. It checks specified directories every 15 minutes for changes
mojombo 15y ago
https://github.com/github/gollum https://github.com/github/gollum - The git-backed wiki that powers GitHub Wikis. https://github.com/technoweenie/madrox https://github.com/technoweenie/madrox - Distributed Twitter implementation in Git. https://github.com/schacon/ticgit https://github.com/schacon/ticgit - Git-based distributed ticketing system. https://github.com/progit/progit https://github.com/progit/progit - Pro Git book using GitHub to facilitate translations into 25 languages. http://code.google.com/p/gource/ http://code.google.com/p/gource/ - Visualize the activity on a git repo (OpenGL).
lee337 15y ago
http://github-high-scores.heroku.com http://github-high-scores.heroku.com - a fun way to rank Github repository contributors in a 8-bit, arcadey, 80's-tastic viewing environment.