Ask HN: Have you seen any cool / innovative uses of git and/or github?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2732149

by chunkyslink • 15 years ago

11 7 15 years ago

news.ycombinator.com

I'm doing a presentation on Monday about git and github. I wanted to finish with a roundup of interesting uses for both.

One example would be that I saw someone using Github as their blog.

Any others?

rawsyntax• 15 years ago

what you saw was probably github pages, it's not really innovative, it's actually built into the site

gvb• 15 years ago

git-annex

http://kitenet.net/~joey/blog/entry/databranches/ "databranches: using git as a database"

http://git-annex.branchable.com/ "git-annex is a git subcommand that allows tracking large files in git -- without the bother of feeding their contents into the git repository!"

RexRollman• 15 years ago

Joey Hess keeps his home directory in git, if I recall correctly.

beagle3• 15 years ago

bup is a backup system by Avery Pennarun (apenwarr). It is "the awesome" - it is fast, de-duplicating, awesome, and yet a regular git repository.

sparkleshare is a dropbox-like system that uses git as a back end (Mac OSX and Linux only for now)

choochootrain• 15 years ago

flashbake is version control for writers based off git. It checks specified directories every 15 minutes for changes

mojombo• 15 years ago

https://github.com/github/gollum - The git-backed wiki that powers GitHub Wikis.

https://github.com/technoweenie/madrox - Distributed Twitter implementation in Git.

https://github.com/schacon/ticgit - Git-based distributed ticketing system.

https://github.com/progit/progit - Pro Git book using GitHub to facilitate translations into 25 languages.

http://code.google.com/p/gource/ - Visualize the activity on a git repo (OpenGL).

lee337• 15 years ago

http://github-high-scores.heroku.com - a fun way to rank Github repository contributors in a 8-bit, arcadey, 80's-tastic viewing environment.

Ask HN: Have you seen any cool / innovative uses of git and/or github?

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