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

11 pointsby chunkyslinkalmost 14 years ago
I'm doing a presentation on Monday about git and github. I wanted to finish with a roundup of interesting uses for both.<p>One example would be that I saw someone using Github as their blog.<p>Any others?

6 comments

mojomboalmost 14 years ago
<a href="https://github.com/github/gollum" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/github/gollum</a> - The git-backed wiki that powers GitHub Wikis.<p><a href="https://github.com/technoweenie/madrox" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/technoweenie/madrox</a> - Distributed Twitter implementation in Git.<p><a href="https://github.com/schacon/ticgit" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/schacon/ticgit</a> - Git-based distributed ticketing system.<p><a href="https://github.com/progit/progit" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/progit/progit</a> - Pro Git book using GitHub to facilitate translations into 25 languages.<p><a href="http://code.google.com/p/gource/" rel="nofollow">http://code.google.com/p/gource/</a> - Visualize the activity on a git repo (OpenGL).
gvbalmost 14 years ago
git-annex<p><a href="http://kitenet.net/~joey/blog/entry/databranches/" rel="nofollow">http://kitenet.net/~joey/blog/entry/databranches/</a> "databranches: using git as a database"<p><a href="http://git-annex.branchable.com/" rel="nofollow">http://git-annex.branchable.com/</a> "git-annex is a git subcommand that allows tracking large files in git -- without the bother of feeding their contents into the git repository!"
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beagle3almost 14 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.<p>sparkleshare is a dropbox-like system that uses git as a back end (Mac OSX and Linux only for now)
lee337almost 14 years ago
<a href="http://github-high-scores.heroku.com" rel="nofollow">http://github-high-scores.heroku.com</a> - a fun way to rank Github repository contributors in a 8-bit, arcadey, 80's-tastic viewing environment.
choochootrainalmost 14 years ago
flashbake is version control for writers based off git. It checks specified directories every 15 minutes for changes
rawsyntaxalmost 14 years ago
what you saw was probably github pages, it's not really innovative, it's actually built into the site