GIT?

Everybody talks about git....what is it exactly i don't know....it seems like just a code hosting place....Am i right or not?
"git" is a Version Control Software:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Version_control_software
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_(software)

"GitHub" is a popular company and website for social coding using git:
https://github.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GitHub
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And its home site, too...

Git
http://git-scm.com/

I like the much repeated quote from Linus Torvalds :-)

I'm an egotistical bastard, and I name all my projects after myself. First Linux, now git.

I assume by now most non-British programmers know what git really means?! (I see it's explained on the wikipedia wikipedia.org entry for Git.)

Andy
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Required viewing for anyone that wants to learn about Git: http://youtu.be/4XpnKHJAok8
What I dont like is that it makes all code visible to the general public. That is what I also don't like about google source version control, hence why I don't use it. Lets say you are making something proprietary and you discover a new paradigm or design pattern, then bam.
@DeXecipher
That is the choice of the host provider (github, sourceforge, googlecode, etc...). IIRC bitbucket offers free private repos.
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DeX wrote:
What I dont like is that it makes all code visible to the general public. That is what I also don't like about google source version control, hence why I don't use it. Lets say you are making something proprietary and you discover a new paradigm or design pattern, then bam.


Version control doesn't make code visible to the general public... And "google source version control" what is that ?? All google provides is a free hosting service for third party source control (read: git, hg, svn...) and asks only that you make your source open. If you want it to be private then you need to go else where and pay for the service (there are other free feature-deprived, ie no bug tracking, private solutions such as bitbucket).
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@xerzi
hence, I don't use it. I use tsvn for my purposes.
@naraku9333
+1 for Bitbucket.
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hence, I don't use it. I use tsvn for my purposes.


For some reason I still feel you don't know the difference. Saying you use tsvn when discussing web hosting... tsvn is still just svn but with a GUI interface instead of typing on the command line. The server hosting your svn repo will use the same server service as svn regardless if you are using tsvn or not.
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@xerzi

I know the differences, but thanks. The gui makes things quicker.
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@DeXecipher What do you use for hosting?
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I know the differences, but thanks. The gui makes things quicker.


Wasn't talking about the differences between svn and tsvn, was talking about the difference between what google provides and what git is.
right now bitbucket.
git does not imply GitHub, nor does git imply open source.
Git is a necessity in my eyes. It's especially handy on group or large scale projects.

I use it with a SourceForge repo. Recently had to do a group project where no version control was available. It is in its absence that you realise how important and useful it is.
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