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I haven't tried out Git yet, but I think this feature may be the most impressive example of what Linus Torvalds said awhile back about Git: that perhaps its mos

I haven't tried out Git yet, but I think this feature may be the most impressive example of what Linus Torvalds said awhile back about Git: that perhaps its most significant advantage would be the tools that people will be able to build on top of it. This seems like an excellent example, especially since it's not something that I could see being feasibly grafted onto Subversion. I've got a personal codebase that I'm planning on making into an open source project, and this feature alone makes me inclined to try out GitHub.

lbrandy 18y ago
> and this feature alone makes me inclined to try out GitHub. Yes, do it. GitHub is -perfect- for small projects that might otherwise die on your hard-drive. Because it's so easy to fork and there's no "ownership", you can stop maintaining it and if someone finds it useful, they can add their changes it and keep it going. This is one of the best use cases for git/github.