My Github Anniversary (Sort Of)
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I joined github about a year ago today. Kind of. It was actually February 29th, but there isn’t one of those this year, so I’m going to have to wait a few more years before I can properly have an anniversary.
Between the time I joined and the time I typed this line, I’ve generated 206 pages of activity (174 pages public).
By the end of my first day, I had migrated two java projects over from mercurial, converted a ruby project from subversion, had that repo forked, watched another ruby project, started a new objective c project, wrote some new code for some of my projects and pushed it and invited a couple of friends (both of whom now share my leap-year-only start date) and added them to a couple of my projects.
Chris became somewhat a github evangelist and made some really cool stuff stuff there (some if it’s cooler than most people can comprehend). Ian throws awesome parties (I’ll eventually make him give me code).
At the point where I started using github, I’d probably been a (somewhat casual) git user for about two weeks. git is great, but the documentation and tutorials were more about laying out an infinitely complex decision tree – that is, git itself is easy to do anything with, but you can do a lot with it, so it comes across as unnecessarily complex.
Github has been really good about making really common paths really easy so that you naturally fall into workflows that minimize the work required to contribute to open source projects down to the point where you can clone a repo, branch, edit some stuff, and notify the maintainer of a project in just a few clicks on the web site.
Overall, it’s been a pretty good year. Just three more until my real anniversary.
