Why is GitHub so "hot" ?

[sethmachine]

Hi,

Why does everyone seem to use GitHub?

I use SVN for version control and usually have stuff on google code. That's how the R & D company did it as well (all the code was open source) and my supervisor never mentioned GitHub once.

What are the advantages of putting code on GitHub versus google code?

 

[GhostWolf]

Why is ice cream so tasty?

 

[Chaosy]

I assume you're talking about google drive? If not, I'd highly recomend it, we use it in school to keep our game project files at a common place for every single one of the developers, really smooth program.

 

[muzzel]

I think when he said "google code" he meant "google code".

https://code.google.com/

 

[Dr Super Good]

SVN was designed for corporate users while GIT was designed for open source usage.

SVN is licenced under the Apache License.
GIT is licenced under the GNU General Public License v2.

This legally make a difference to what they can do.

Also the way revisions are managed in GIT is more flexible than SVN. In SVN branches generally are stored in the same repository and it is tricky/difficult to merge repositories. This means development is more linear and branches need to be more carefully planned so they can be merged later. GIT on the other hand can take another repository and merge it very easily. You could decide to start your own branch of a GIT repository locally, make some changes and then export those changes back to the main branch with a merger or even start a separate git repository and merge in changes from the main.

The main reason GIT is so big is that the Linux Kernel and many related projects are managed by it (it was designed to do so in fact). Linux is a big deal in the IT sector.

 

[GhostWolf]

You can choose any license you want (or don't want) for your projects...

 

[Chaosy]

I think when he said "google code" he meant "google code".

https://code.google.com/

Ah.. never heard of that before. Goggle drive would work for the purpose though x)

 

[Dr Super Good]

You can choose any license you want (or don't want) for your projects...

For the projects, yes, but not for using the management system. Law is a very stupid thing so I imagine it does make a difference in some situations.