GitHub in social apps?

January 8, 2010 10:19 AM

Can we have GitHub added to the social apps list? I bet there's a good number of Mefites sharing code over there.

In case anyone's wondering, I also posted this request on the wiki page.

posted by thisjax to Feature Requests at 10:19 AM (16 comments total)

Sounds reasonable to me. I'll add it next time I add a batch of sites.
posted by pb (staff) at 10:38 AM on January 8, 2010

Yay!
posted by Skorgu at 10:56 AM on January 8, 2010

(I'm sharing code over there, for instance)
posted by The Confessor at 11:01 AM on January 8, 2010

nice.
posted by boo_radley at 11:03 AM on January 8, 2010

MY CODE! ALL MINE!! MINE MINE MINE!!!!!
posted by GuyZero at 11:05 AM on January 8, 2010

Might do Launchpad while you're at it.
posted by DU at 11:24 AM on January 8, 2010

MY CODE! ALL MINE!! MINE MINE MINE!!!!!

Oh? You mean, this code I just cloned & forked?
posted by Pronoiac at 11:33 AM on January 8, 2010

I meet enough right gits in everyday life - what's the appeal wih networking with them online?
posted by Abiezer at 11:37 AM on January 8, 2010

Might do Launchpad while you're at it.

And bitbucket, for us mercurial users.

URL format: http://bitbucket.org/<username>
posted by effbot at 12:13 PM on January 8, 2010

Is this the place where I can admit I'm not a fan of git? I keep doing something that makes the repository look like we haven't done any work in a month. How is that possible?
posted by Plutor at 12:24 PM on January 8, 2010

Just a reminder—if you submit a suggestion please take a look at the rules for submitting on the wiki page. We'd like to see a working profile page at the service to make sure it's eligible.
posted by pb (staff) at 12:27 PM on January 8, 2010

Well, that depends... what have you been doing for the past month?
posted by The Pusher Robot at 2:07 PM on January 8, 2010

Plutor: Are you working in the master branch?
posted by Pronoiac at 5:22 PM on January 8, 2010

I wish I understood how it worked. It totally mystifies me, and there are a couple of projects there that I'd love to be able to get at some actual code to play with, if I understood how.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 4:27 PM on January 9, 2010

stavros: For theory, the Pro Git book, & for details, this git cheatsheet helped me, & the relevant sections are "Basic Repository" & "Individual Developer." To get a copy of a repository - history & all - git clone is what you want, with the "git://github.com/..." url near the top of the github project page.

Ah - you're on Windows? You probably want msysgit. Github's old help wiki (which is being phased out) is currently more helpful than their new page.
posted by Pronoiac at 7:41 PM on January 9, 2010 [3 favorites]

Forgot to check in on this thread — thanks, pb!
posted by thisjax at 11:21 PM on January 12, 2010