Github is maybe not perfect, but it requires *zero* maintenance. Does the
INRIA team want to set up a git server, setup gitosis for managing users,
etc, respond to someone when there is a problem. Github won. Let's get over
it.


On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rich@annexia.org>wrote:

> On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 07:28:27PM +0100, Joel Reymont wrote:
> > http://github.com
> >
> > This would allow for documentation, etc. to be kept online and edited
> easily.
> >
> > It would also allow for documented and well-presented pull requests
> > with patches.
>
> TBH we switched libguestfs hosting to github about 5 months ago, and
> I'm not too happy with it.  Pull requests turn into merges (ie.
> non-linear history) which I particularly dislike.
>
> But there are lots of git hosting places, including the option of
> setting up git hosting at INRIA -- it's very easy to setup and
> maintain.
>
> That's not the point though.  The point is that git is just *far
> better* than SVN.  And also (compared to other VCS), git won.  Let's
> get over it.
>
> Rich.
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