In the past git had bad tooling, that is not the case today. I've been using git also without github screens - and while they definitely add a lot, it is still ten times more usable than SVN.
As I told the Lucene.NET mailing list, you should all watch the following video and give git a few days of your time before continuing with this discussion: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8 Also, Apache mirrors to github, so basically you work against github all the time On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 4:15 PM, Robert Muir <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 9:10 AM, Mark Miller <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> On Nov 30, 2012, at 8:56 AM, Robert Muir <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > but git by itself, is pretty unusable. >> >> Given the number of committers that eat some pain to use git when >> developing lucene/solr, and have no github or pull requests, I'm not sure >> that's a common though :) >> >> > Sure, some people might disagree with me. > I'm more than willing to eat some pain if it makes contributions easier. > > I just feel like a lot of what makes github successful.... is > unfortunately actually in github and not git. > > Its like if your development team is screaming for linux machines. You > have to be careful how to interpret that. If you hand them a bunch of > machines with just linux kernels, they probably won't be productive. When > they scream for "linux" they want a userland with a shell, compiler, > X-windows, editor and so on too. > >
