A few hours ago, Petr Baudis, the man who put up git.or.cz and repo.or.cz and has worked on TopGit and a ton of other useful Git projects, just redirected the git.or.cz main site to git-scm.com, a fork of the git.or.cz site that I started a few months ago.
His email to the Git mailing list reads thusly:
Hi, thanks for the changes, Scott! Based on the previous feedback of other developers and my last review of git-scm.com, I have changed git.or.cz to redirect to git-scm.com. The wiki is still hosted at the original place for the time being, as well as the man/ gitbot redirect. To reach the original manpage, use <a href="http://git.or.cz/index.html">http://git.or.cz/index.html</a>. Have a fun year, -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis
So, I’m now the maintainer of the main Git website. If you have ideas for features, please let me know, or even better – fork the project, make the changes and send a pull request.
Perhaps a link to http://whygitisbetterthanx.com/
Power to the people. They’ll have you for antitrust soon! Nice work Scott, congratulations.
Very cool. May I suggest using git-scm.org rather than git-scm.com? Currently git-scm.org redirects to git-scm.com, but I would reverse that. There is nothing commercial about git. I think the .org domain more properly reflects the open source GPL quality of git.
Perhaps a link to http://whyhgisbetterthanx.com/
Oh, snap!
I am a fan of Mercurial however… I won’t lie :)
Congrats Scott. Your amazing work is paying
Congratulations Scott!, you are unstoppable.
Keep the cool work!
link to msysgit with proper disclaimers, please?
I agree about the .org and .com switch; the official site should be .org.
@drnic – i hesitate to link to ‘whygit’ specifically because of things like @dylanz comment.
I feel that all of the points I make on that site are valid, but it is a simplistic apologia, not a presentation of points and counterpoints, which I think people need to feel that it’s ‘fair’. So, I may re-use a lot of that content in a new format for the git homepage at some point, but it’s unlikely I will link to it.
People have simply reacted much more negatively than I expected to it, even doing ad-hominem based websites mocking it – which, although somewhat flattering, is not the reaction I want to elicit via the main git homepage.
@spovich and @technomancy – I don’t own the .org, it was already taken when I registered the .com – git.org itself is also taken, so this was the best I could do, domain-wise. The .org guy started redirecting to the or.cz site, but in order to switch them, we would have to transfer the ‘git-scm.org’ domain to me, which is painful and problematic, especially since I don’t really know the guy who owns it.
@imbaczek – what proper disclaimers? if you fork the site and change it, i’ll be happy to pull in the changes.
how about a link to http://whyhgisnotbetterthanx.com/ ? ;-)
seriously, awesome work!
schacon: msysgit is almost bare-bone git; e.g. git-svn is broken and horribly slow. core git functionality works, but not in potentially important cases like over UNC paths; autocrlf defaults may be a bit intrusive; such things.
don’t have time to do actual work, though ^^ currently there’s absolutely no mention that it is possible to use git on windows without cygwin, and IMHO it’s very important for windows people to know that it exists, works, and does so quite well at that.
woops no edit – i see that there’s “other download options”, didn’t occur to me that it could contain a link to msysgit at first. it’s not as bad as i thought it is, though.