Re: GitHub's ³pull request² is proprietary lock-in
Christian Gollwitzer
auriocus at gmx.de
Mon Jan 4 02:02:28 EST 2016
Am 04.01.16 um 06:29 schrieb Paul Rubin:
> Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Sun, Jan 3, 2016 at 9:42 PM, Paul Rubin <no.email at nospam.invalid> wrote:
>>> Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> writes:
>>>> If you're not using a GitHub PR, then what you're doing is using GH to
>>>> host your repository.
>>> What's the point of GH in that situation?
>> Mainly hosting, plus you can use gh-pages and other features. Plenty.
>
> GH pages are just normal web pages with markdown processing, right?
Yes. The processor is freely available (jekyll, written in Ruby). It's
usual to put up a local server (jekyl --serve) while updating the pages,
befor you publish them, which is done by a git commit/push to the
gh-pages branch.
> What other features? And doesn't that come back around to getting
> locked into the walled garden?
For the pages definitely not.
Christian
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