On Sun, 13 Jun 2010 14:42:03 +0200 Thomas Martitz thomas.martitz@student.htw-berlin.de wrote:
Am 13.06.2010 13:08, schrieb Enrico Tröger:
I really don't like github and gitorious. Also, as I said I'm not that familiar with GIT but I don't see why features like forking or such should be done by a hosting service, aren't these all features of the VCS itself?
Yes and no. Forking at the hoster side has several advantages. You get a free host for the remote, the forks are categorized and associated with the mainline, the actual changes in the fork are visible for anyone (most importantly for the maintainers of mainline). And you get the forks of several contributors collected in a single place making it easier for people to pick out their favorite changes etc.
This could also be done by a self-hosted solution as in most cases the local branch/folk is knowing of its parents.
Cheers, Frank