Published: at 10:00 AM
What GitHub really sells
After stripping GitHub down to SSH and a bare repository, the product becomes clearer: GitHub sells the collaboration system around Git.
Topic: github-from-first-principles
Articles about "github-from-first-principles".
Published: at 11:15 AM
Pull requests are not Git
Git gives us branches, diffs, patches, and merges. A pull request is the collaboration object GitHub built around them.
Published: at 04:20 PM
The server gets a vote
Server-side hooks turn a dumb Git remote into something that can enforce policy before history changes.
Published: at 09:45 AM
git push does not upload your project
A push is not a folder upload. It is Git sending missing objects and asking the remote to move a branch reference.
Published: at 10:30 AM
GitHub is just a remote until it isn't
A small GitHub without GitHub: one Linux box, one bare repository, and the first useful boundary between Git and the product built around it.