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?
<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).
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!"
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)
<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.