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because github is one of the most visible and most visited source hosting sites?
by treffer 15y ago
because github is one of the most visible and most visited source hosting sites?
- skeptical 15y agoI still don't get your point. It's the most visited source hosting site, no doubt about that, so...? On the subject of the topic, I'm getting tired of this git euforia. The linked message says zero about the reason beyond a simple direct voting. So, for no reason they decided to have a voting and ignore the reasons why people vote whatever they did? Sounds like a pretty useless voting for me. Well, except if you want to be popular and use all the tools the cool kids use these days, I guess that's a valid reason. Something tells me that there will be less 'I'm too cool to say positive things about PHP' kind of threads in HN.
- derekorgan 15y agoto be fair the reason is outlined in the post. "... move to a decentralized version control system."
- skeptical 15y agobazaar and mercurial are decentralized too, so that would only rule out SVN.
- jarin 15y agoWell, I mean, there's a reason all the cool kids are using git these days, and it's not just to "look cool".
- d0m 15y agoWell Git is simply great. It's fast, it's powerful, there's a very helpful community, it's integrated everywhere, there are well made and useful online repository (Yes Github, but others too), the list goes on and on. Yes, there are bazaar, mercurial and probably dozen of others, but there's also git. I'm not sure I get your point. I think what you don't like is that they chose to jump on git without real reason instead of carefully comparing other alternatives. It might be true.. or it might not. All great programmers try various version control.. if the majority of them prefered Git for their personal projects, why not switch to it? And, for open source project, Github is really just too useful.
- skeptical 15y agoMy point is rather simple: Everybody is jumping in the git/github bandwagen but the huge majority doesn't appear to be able to state practical advantage of git besides github popularity. That is my point. Not saying that there are no advantages, but heck, changing to something else because "it should be good, everyone else is doing it" is plain stupid... and very silly. And those are attributes we wouldn't want to welcome to the hackers' community.
- armandososa 15y agoever heard of the network effect?
- rimantas 15y agoWho are "we"? Someone making assumptions about the motivation of others? the huge majority doesn't appear to be able How do you know that? Did you interview the huge majority yourself? Git has many important advantages over svn and they are no secret.
- jarofgreen 15y ago> The linked message says zero about the reason beyond a simple direct voting. The linked message is a single posting from thousands to an internal message list, of course it doesn't. A quick search for "git" on the PHP internals list shows lots of posts. > So, for no reason they decided to have a voting and ignore the reasons why people vote whatever they did? Jumping to conclusions much?