This can't be good:-(

Joel
N6ALT

Git was written by Linus to deal with the millions of lines of code in the linux kernel
when changes are simultaneously being created by hundreds (thousands?) of coders.?
Git is free and open source, we could install it on any machine we wish.
Or could, as Arv points out, use some other version control system.

Github happens to be a convenient place to go when archiving projects under git
that has been trusted by open source coders over the years.??
That might change as M$oft tries to earn back it's $7,500,000,000 investment (and more).
I now have zero interest in parking anything up on github.

For the thousand or so lines of code on a uBitx, zip archives in the uBitx files section
are sufficient.? With a teensy or RasberryPi being used, that could also change.
Some will find the need to use tools that help keep track of differences between
the various versions of code as the code base expands, even if only one coder
is involved.? I've seldom felt the need.

Jerry, KE7ER



On Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 02:45 pm, Arv Evans wrote:

There are several other on-line version-control systems.? Some are free and others

charge high prices for their use.? Some have potential for BITX code development

work, and some less appropriate.?

Those of us using Linux already have local RCS and VCS that was migrated from ancient
UNIX tools.? CVCS (Concurrent Version Control System) is also available on Linux systems.

Some of the readily available IDE packages also include either RCS or CVS tools.? Of course

these are local solutions, but they could be made accessible to others via a shared file

system on cloud-computing servers.

If the Microsoft purchase of GitHub does become a problem then we might want to look at

some of these alternatives.?

It might be interesting to approach the people who made and support to see if they
could include some sort of version control as an option for groups that are interesting in code

development..

?

Arv
_._

Arv,

Being an anarchist by nature, I wing it.
Before making changes, I save to a zip archive of everything I care about, named perhaps ubitxjg37.zip
Then I create a new header at the top of the main file with the date, perhaps ubitxjg38:? 2018-6-4
and add comments below that header as I adjust the code.?

When I'm ready for other people to look at it, I review all those comments and make sure nothing
is still outstanding, then remove all of it, leave only comments that are current.
Call the whole thing revision 1.0 and send it out.

Never have really figured out git in a serious way.
Don't intend to.
? ??

Jerry, KE7ER? ?(just now up from his nap)



On Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 03:17 pm, Arv Evans wrote:

As I get even older I find that some sort of revision control system is needed in order

to do any code work.? I use CVCS on Linux to tell me when I last worked on a coding

project, what changes I made at that time, and then check-out the latest version for

continued work.? I can remember code I wrote at Bell Labs in 1980, but not what I

wrote for my Raduino last week.? Getting old is difficult and frustrating.? 8-(

Corporations are not evil, they're indifferent. That makes them quite dangerous indeed. Microsoft hasn't changed all that much from their adopted philosophy of "embrace, extend and extinguish" since the 90's. If you do a little research, you'll find that most of the corporations have pretty much that same bias. If there's competition, eliminate it. If it's a small start-up, all the more so.

How's that Skype working for you?

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On Monday, June 4, 2018 11:18 PM, "Tom, wb6b" <wb6b@...> wrote:

I certainly would not change from Git. It is a standard that is not tied to GitHub.

I also have an account on BitBucket??BitBucket and GitHub both have free accounts. GitHub bases their paid accounts on the number of repositories, BitBucket on the number of users. Often companies I do consulting for have BitBucket accounts rather GitHub accounts. BitBucket seems to have features that bigger organizations like.?

Microsoft does not seem as evil as they were in the past, but as big companies start buying and consolidating things, and the internet just becomes more of an extension of your cable company and the entertainment industry, the shape of the open internet and open source could change over time. But, that is likely a long way off.

If GitHub becomes an undesirable place to host projects, other companies will will respond with new offerings.

Tom, wb6b