what are your thoughts about git and GitHub?

[ron77]

Hi To have some community discussion...

Question for all of you - what do you think about git and GitHub? Good? Bad? Do you use it? And if so, how and for what? Do you not use it or avoid it? And if so, why?...

Here's my take on it... I used to back up my work on GitHub and don't see any problem with it, but I don't use it much today - what frustrates me is if, for some reason, you delete your account, you can't restore it even if you regret it... (it happened to me twice) nowadays, I use this forum and Dropbox to back up my stuff and code...

GitHub is excellent if you got a big project you wish to share with the world and need to stay up to date or show your abilities in open source - however, I, as a hobby programmer and amateurish coder, don't have anything that important to put on it - it seems to me GitHub is trying to be the social network for coding when I go there it feels like Facebook of code :/ So I don't care much for it and don't need it - my code is for this forum only or to share with friends - by the way, that was how it used to be before GitHub, I guess - coding forums and communities and if you had some big project to share you upload it to a host site for programs so people could download it -

anyway that's my 2 cents

[CharlieJV]

I don't mind browsing Github when I'm looking for something specific.

Being a big fan of FeatherWiki, I also don't mind using Github to give feedback/comments/etc. to the project.


Otherwise, I don't use Github personally because I cannot stand the interface for some baffling reason.  It just annoys the daylights out of me.

[ZXDunny]

As a hobbyist I use git for all my projects. It's wonderful - I even commit SpecBAS binaries to it, so that I can quickly and easily do regression testing by skipping back through the history of commits.

Professionally, we use SVN rather than GIT, but these days I've not be without some sort of version control.

[johnno56]

The only time that I use github is when a download link sends me there...