Re:CodePlex now supports Git
by jabits on Thursday March 22, 2012 @05:07PM
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Right on Microsoft! It's great to see a software powerhouse able to turn its entire outlook about to keep it's users coming back. Between the ever wonderful Visual Studio IDE, and MS's new-found appreciation for how open-source can enhance it's position, it's a good time to be a .Net dev.
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Totally agree. If they threw their weight behind Mono C# would be my language of choice for everything.
I agree, Visual Studio and C# are great tools, and complemented by open source tools like Git, libraries and extensions like SpecFlow, it makes a pretty compelling development environment.
Completely true, but Github still beats Codeplex by parsecs.
Re:CodePlex now supports Git
by josephcooney on Thursday March 22, 2012 @06:44PM
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I guess the great thing about DVCS is that you can have your 'latest' code available with full history at codeplex and github if you want to. And if one goes out of business, stops supporting Git or whatever you just push to bitbucket, somewhere else or self-host.
Re:CodePlex now supports Git
by bunderbunder on Thursday March 22, 2012 @05:36PM
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They do different things. Github excels when it comes to community & source management, but doesn't really do anything to help you set up a project home page, manage official releases, or anything like that. Codeplex is more of a Sourceforge-style "one stop project hosting" site.
Re:CodePlex now supports Git
by cameronh90 on Thursday March 22, 2012 @05:44PM
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They do have a way of setting up project pages: http://pages.github.com/
And each project has a download list which can contain official releases, or you can just link to a tag as a zip download. Github also has a pretty decent issue tracker and wiki.
I'm not so sure that's a difference in focus as it is evidence for holes github has to fill. They're moving in that direction already with the project wikis, which I think are great.
I too would really like to see things like mailing lists, forums, and a bug tracker that doesn't suck (seriously guys: you couldn't just reskin bugzilla?). But I suspect github agrees with that, and will get there eventually.