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GitHub provides the best web-based git repository browser, as well as various other useful features. The only other reasonable alternative for a large open-sour

GitHub provides the best web-based git repository browser, as well as various other useful features. The only other reasonable alternative for a large open-source project, aside from self-hosting, is bitbucket.

rplnt 12y ago
I would like to disagree with the "the best". Mostly because it's obviously your opinion and not something you can say definitely.
- tomp 12y ago
  Can you give any alternatives?
  - rplnt 12y ago
    Well the already mentioned bitbucket, stash, cgit, gitweb, ... My point is that if you like something it isn't automatically "the best".
- coldtea 12y ago
  Sometimes you have to learn to trust your opinion too -- and to learn to access others opinions when there are no definite answers.
1wd 12y ago
Could you describe what makes it the best repository browser? I like e.g. https://trac.openstreetmap.org/browser/chef https://trac.openstreetmap.org/browser/chef
sfk 12y ago
I disagree. GitHub looks cluttered and the contrast is too low for speed reading. I prefer the hg interface, for example: https://hg.python.org/cpython/ https://hg.python.org/cpython/ Another interface I prefer is: http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/
- oblio 12y ago
  You like cvsweb? It's horrible. I'm here: http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/CVSROOT/ http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/CVSROOT/. Why does not clicking a file open the file?!?!? Every freaking file browser in existence opens the file when I click it. It's been designed in the 90s and it shows :(
- _ZeD_ 12y ago
  ironically there is an ongoing discussion on python-devel to migrate from hg to git+github IMHO it's an error, but I am not a core python developer
sampo 12y ago
> GitHub provides the best web-based git repository browser I like Bitbucket's side-by-side diff view so much, that I think I prefer Bitbucker for browsing. But this is only because Bitbucket has the side-by-side diff view, anf GitHub does not.
- ayrx 12y ago
  GitHub introduced side-by-side diffs recently.
  - sampo 12y ago
    Oh, right, thanks. They just call it "split" and not side-by-side.
snowwrestler 12y ago
Lot of replies here disagreeing that GitHub is "the best", and offering alternatives. Allow me to suggest that GitHub is at minimum the most-visited web-based git repo, which means that if you want a lot of people to view and use your code, it's a good place to mirror.

rplnt 12y ago

I would like to disagree with the "the best". Mostly because it's obviously your opinion and not something you can say definitely.

tomp 12y ago
Can you give any alternatives?
- rplnt 12y ago
  Well the already mentioned bitbucket, stash, cgit, gitweb, ... My point is that if you like something it isn't automatically "the best".
coldtea 12y ago
Sometimes you have to learn to trust your opinion too -- and to learn to access others opinions when there are no definite answers.

1wd 12y ago

Could you describe what makes it the best repository browser? I like e.g. https://trac.openstreetmap.org/browser/chef https://trac.openstreetmap.org/browser/chef

sfk 12y ago

I disagree. GitHub looks cluttered and the contrast is too low for speed reading. I prefer the hg interface, for example: https://hg.python.org/cpython/ https://hg.python.org/cpython/ Another interface I prefer is: http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/

oblio 12y ago
You like cvsweb? It's horrible. I'm here: http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/CVSROOT/ http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/CVSROOT/. Why does not clicking a file open the file?!?!? Every freaking file browser in existence opens the file when I click it. It's been designed in the 90s and it shows :(
_ZeD_ 12y ago
ironically there is an ongoing discussion on python-devel to migrate from hg to git+github IMHO it's an error, but I am not a core python developer

sampo 12y ago

> GitHub provides the best web-based git repository browser I like Bitbucket's side-by-side diff view so much, that I think I prefer Bitbucker for browsing. But this is only because Bitbucket has the side-by-side diff view, anf GitHub does not.

ayrx 12y ago
GitHub introduced side-by-side diffs recently.
- sampo 12y ago
  Oh, right, thanks. They just call it "split" and not side-by-side.

snowwrestler 12y ago

Lot of replies here disagreeing that GitHub is "the best", and offering alternatives. Allow me to suggest that GitHub is at minimum the most-visited web-based git repo, which means that if you want a lot of people to view and use your code, it's a good place to mirror.