[wp-hackers] Switching from SVN

[scribu]

On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 6:42 PM, Tom Adams <tom at thedextrousweb.com> wrote:

> > even if GitHub were open, it's project management features are minimal.
> > jQuery uses github + trac, which is not ideal, I would think.
>
> Have you seen Gitorious? I think the project management features are far
> superior to GitHub.
>
> http://gitorious.org/
>
> Back when GitHub just had plain pull requests (which is an equivalent of
> a message saying "please pull from me"), Gitorious already had merge
> requests, which specify exactly which commits would be merged, shows you
> the result of merging the commits (i.e. unified diff), allows feedback
> and discussion (including commenting on individual lines), and allows
> you to update your merge request.
>
> Example:
>
> http://gitorious.org/statusnet/mainline/merge_requests/1065
>
> And of course it's open source, which is another thing it has over GitHub.
>

Very nice! It even uses gravatars already :)