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Moving to Github

We’re moving our plugins, gems, and other open source projects to github. I know, it’s a shock. We’re going to keep the SVN versions of them going for a while, but the “official” repositories for each of these is now what’s hosted on github. So get busy with the hot forking action.

We’ve got:

By-and-large, we’ve resisted the move to git, despite the searing heat it’s been putting off in the Ruby community recently. We’re still a centralized development house, and so our internal development will still be SVN-based. It’s just how we roll. Though I imagine a few of the guys here will start picking up git-svn.

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Jon Yurek
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April 15th 02:43 PM
Updated:
April 15th 02:51 PM
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