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PHP source code now hosted on Github

138 points by birken 15y ago

Abomonog 15y ago
Note, to those that wonder: It moved to git.php.net as github only contains a mirror. And other parts of the PHP project are still in transition. There's also a mercurial mirror. The PHP source module is named php-src.
- wizzard 15y ago
  Thanks for the clarification. It's been mirrored on github for a long time, but it's almost always a pretty old release. To OP, "hosted on git" and "hosted on github" are two very different things.
- Nervetattoo 15y ago
  While that is true they now encourages people to submit patches as github pull requests: https://wiki.php.net/vcs/gitworkflow https://wiki.php.net/vcs/gitworkflow
kodablah 15y ago
Does this mean they will also use the GitHub issues instead of bugzilla? I would very much welcome this.
- pilif 15y ago
  I'm nitpicking, but they were never using bugzilla but their own system (which now lives here: http://git.php.net/?p=web/bugs.git;a=summary http://git.php.net/?p=web/bugs.git;a=summary) Also, github is just a mirror. The main repo is on git.php.net where they are continuing to use their karma based everyone-commits-to-a-central-repo system (see http://git.php.net/?p=karma.git;a=summary http://git.php.net/?p=karma.git;a=summary). This goes together with the rest of the infrastructure that they continue to self-host
  - sn_ 15y ago
    it is a DVCS. it doesnt matter where it's hosted. external contributors should use github, core developers will go through git.php.net. it's all the same.
- RossM 15y ago
  PHP's always used it's own tracker (http://bugs.php.net http://bugs.php.net).
xpose2000 15y ago
It's weird to see PHP as being comprised of 62.5% C, though obviously it makes sense.
Archio 15y ago
Wow. I think one of the coolest things about this, is seeing a GitHub repo with some of the commits being from 12 years ago. Gives you an idea of how long PHP's been around as compared to a lot of the projects floating around GH.
- brendano 15y ago
  Python - first commit, 22 years ago https://github.com/python-git/python/commit/463d099321a4572eed9854e7e41997f17107c88f https://github.com/python-git/python/commit/463d099321a4572e... (Current first page: https://github.com/python-git/python/commits/master?page=1179 https://github.com/python-git/python/commits/master?page=117... ) Perl - first commit, 24 years ago Amazing title: a "replacement" for awk and sed https://github.com/mirrors/perl/commit/8d063cd8450e59ea1c611a2f4f5a21059a2804f1 https://github.com/mirrors/perl/commit/8d063cd8450e59ea1c611... (Current first page: https://github.com/mirrors/perl/commits/ams/no-more-study?&page=1286 https://github.com/mirrors/perl/commits/ams/no-more-study?&#... ) Apparently the current Linux kernel repositories don't go back as far: http://kerneltrap.org/node/13996 http://kerneltrap.org/node/13996
  - zxy 15y ago
    I remember Linus saying they only keep the last 5 years of commits, because more isn't really necessary.
    - LawnGnome 15y ago
      I think it's very dependent on the project. There really are times in php-src when you want to be able to go back a fair way, since the last significant change to function's implementation may well have been 10 years ago in the early 4.x days (and Git is going to be a huge win for us there over Subversion). I wouldn't be surprised if it makes much less sense for the kernel, though.
zedr 15y ago
Ban Rasmus please.
- zedr 15y ago
  Heh. It was a tongue-in-cheek reference to http://svn.php.net/viewvc/php/php-src/trunk/ext/standard/php_crypt_r.c?r1=314438&r2=314437&pathrev=314438 http://svn.php.net/viewvc/php/php-src/trunk/ext/standard/php...

138 points by birken 15y ago

Note, to those that wonder: It moved to git.php.net as github only contains a mirror. And other parts of the PHP project are still in transition. There's also a mercurial mirror. The PHP source module is named php-src.

wizzard 15y ago
Thanks for the clarification. It's been mirrored on github for a long time, but it's almost always a pretty old release. To OP, "hosted on git" and "hosted on github" are two very different things.
Nervetattoo 15y ago
While that is true they now encourages people to submit patches as github pull requests: https://wiki.php.net/vcs/gitworkflow https://wiki.php.net/vcs/gitworkflow

kodablah 15y ago

Does this mean they will also use the GitHub issues instead of bugzilla? I would very much welcome this.

pilif 15y ago
I'm nitpicking, but they were never using bugzilla but their own system (which now lives here: http://git.php.net/?p=web/bugs.git;a=summary http://git.php.net/?p=web/bugs.git;a=summary) Also, github is just a mirror. The main repo is on git.php.net where they are continuing to use their karma based everyone-commits-to-a-central-repo system (see http://git.php.net/?p=karma.git;a=summary http://git.php.net/?p=karma.git;a=summary). This goes together with the rest of the infrastructure that they continue to self-host
- sn_ 15y ago
  it is a DVCS. it doesnt matter where it's hosted. external contributors should use github, core developers will go through git.php.net. it's all the same.
RossM 15y ago
PHP's always used it's own tracker (http://bugs.php.net http://bugs.php.net).

xpose2000 15y ago

It's weird to see PHP as being comprised of 62.5% C, though obviously it makes sense.

Archio 15y ago

Wow. I think one of the coolest things about this, is seeing a GitHub repo with some of the commits being from 12 years ago. Gives you an idea of how long PHP's been around as compared to a lot of the projects floating around GH.

brendano 15y ago
Python - first commit, 22 years ago https://github.com/python-git/python/commit/463d099321a4572eed9854e7e41997f17107c88f https://github.com/python-git/python/commit/463d099321a4572e... (Current first page: https://github.com/python-git/python/commits/master?page=1179 https://github.com/python-git/python/commits/master?page=117... ) Perl - first commit, 24 years ago Amazing title: a "replacement" for awk and sed https://github.com/mirrors/perl/commit/8d063cd8450e59ea1c611a2f4f5a21059a2804f1 https://github.com/mirrors/perl/commit/8d063cd8450e59ea1c611... (Current first page: https://github.com/mirrors/perl/commits/ams/no-more-study?&page=1286 https://github.com/mirrors/perl/commits/ams/no-more-study?&#... ) Apparently the current Linux kernel repositories don't go back as far: http://kerneltrap.org/node/13996 http://kerneltrap.org/node/13996
- zxy 15y ago
  I remember Linus saying they only keep the last 5 years of commits, because more isn't really necessary.
  - LawnGnome 15y ago
    I think it's very dependent on the project. There really are times in php-src when you want to be able to go back a fair way, since the last significant change to function's implementation may well have been 10 years ago in the early 4.x days (and Git is going to be a huge win for us there over Subversion). I wouldn't be surprised if it makes much less sense for the kernel, though.

zedr 15y ago

Ban Rasmus please.

zedr 15y ago
Heh. It was a tongue-in-cheek reference to http://svn.php.net/viewvc/php/php-src/trunk/ext/standard/php_crypt_r.c?r1=314438&r2=314437&pathrev=314438 http://svn.php.net/viewvc/php/php-src/trunk/ext/standard/php...