Yesterday I was visiting Oslo’s Ruby Tuesday meetup and have seen a great presentation of Gitorious project by Johan Sørensen
Gitorious is a free hosting for Git repos. Basically, I was thinking about something like that before, but Johan found a great idea that makes this service unique — Gitorious is able to track others’ clones — and thanks to Git’s simple model it is done by a very simple approach — each user can clone other’s repo at the site and use it as an upstream for a repo to be cloned to a local computer. Then, after changes being pushed, Gitorious is able to track changes in clones of original repo. This is really exciting feature!
I am personally thinking whether I want to move Lilu (and other projects) git repos to Gitorious.
I also told Johan about some ideas that appeared in my head about how to make Gitorious even cooler. So I hope Johan will eventually open source it and I will be able to contribute.
Glad you liked the presentation and Gitorious itself!
I plan to push the opensource version of gitorious this weekend, so you can implement some of the cool ideas you have ;)
As long I have used git I was thinking exactly the same thing but was too busy to start it going myself. I’ll jump to gitorious as well and hope cloning is really working in our social level. I have seen many rails projects where the owner is too busy to update code and a small clone would be nice (however don’t know how well it will be really work in real life). There might be needed some security indicators (something similar as ebay). ok, let’s see.