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title: Linus on github
categories:
  - computer
date: 2012-06-14T06:35:10
tags:
---

Just to record for myself link to `the awesome discussion about
deficiencies of github`_. I have been tempted lately to the sweet
proprietary arms of github lately (yes, their cheap commenting threads
are a killer feature and as awesome as cheap branches in git itself). It
also leads to `the very nice blogpost on git commit messages`_.

It is unfortunately very rare to get a good comparison between GitHub
and gitweb+git based on their technical merit, so the proprietary nature
of github then stands as the only problem of github.

I should also take a longer look at ``git request-pull (1)``. Apparently
its documentation is its weakest part (see `example result`_ and
`Linus’s comment on what consitutes a good pull request`_).

.. _`the awesome discussion about deficiencies of github`:
    https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17#issuecomment-5654674
.. _`the very nice blogpost on git commit messages`:
    http://tbaggery.com/2008/04/19/a-note-about-git-commit-messages.html
.. _`example result`:
    http://groups.google.com/group/linux.kernel/browse_thread/thread/c3de7bbe9bb73cf5/1d61f01ea9ec3c67?show_docid=1d61f01ea9ec3c67&pli=1
.. _`Linus’s comment on what consitutes a good pull request`:
    https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17#issuecomment-5663780