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What really sets GitHub apart, is not that it uses Git, but how elegantly it pulls everything together (source control, new API discovery, networking, site host
by p3ll0n 16y ago
What really sets GitHub apart, is not that it uses Git, but how elegantly it pulls everything together (source control, new API discovery, networking, site hosting) around a set of core social networking ideas.
- Ygor 16y agoSo, do you think it is possible to create something similar, but with the support for some other version control system, like mercurial? Or even a centralized one like svn? Could it even be github to offer this, despite the name?
- Popcorn 16y agoThere's a github clone for mercurial: http://bitbucket.org/ http://bitbucket.org/
- Aaronontheweb 16y agoCodePlex (most commonly used for .NET projects) has support for Mercurial but I don't think its social features are quite as strong as Github's.
- gxti 16y agoMercurial has http://bitbucket.org/ http://bitbucket.org/ -- not nearly as popular but a tad less cluttered IMHO.
- JoshCole 16y agoThere is a hg plugin which allows lossless communication between git and hg [1]. So in a way github already exists for mercurial, and since it already exists there is no question as to whether or not it is possible to do. 1: http://hg-git.github.com/ http://hg-git.github.com/
- m0tive 16y agoI've been experimenting with bzr-git, pushing my bazaar branches to github... so far, so good (though I've not really done any 'social' stuff yet or been branching other peoples work).
- a_m0d 16y agoGithub actually offers support for svn, in a way - see http://help.github.com/svn-importing/ http://help.github.com/svn-importing/ for a bit more info. It is also possible to use git on top of svn - see http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-svn.html http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-svn.html