Well I’m no longer a “young” coder, but there’s some code up on https://github.com/mikerr/biped for a pi based walking robot
and https://github.com/mikerr/pivision for some motion tracking python/opencv stuff

The free private repos + unlimited team colaboration if you sign up with a .edu, ac.in etc type email address makes it far more school friendly than github (which is charging money). And they support Hg in addition to git.

But GitHub has done more to popularize itself. I saw this post by git on facebook. There is no bitbucket page on facebook.

While today’s (NEMA?) three-prong sockets have a vertical semicircular/rectangular ground/earth connection and a larger vertical rectangular neutral connection (on the left, when looking into the socket with the ground connection oriented downward), the hot/deadly connection is a slightly smaller, but still quite large enough open rectangular connection to stick all manner of things into that can make really impressive sparks and muscle-spasming current draw upwards of 15 ~ 20 amps without tripping a breaker (don’t ask me how I know about the spasming part – my brother is still quivering five decades later). However, five decades ago, all we had in our walls were those two-pronged gaping maws of death, the connections in either one of which (and possibly both, due to lax electrical codes and inspections in a post-WW-II building boom period) could allow one to create a very nice, complete path between the power source, ground/Earth … and the Moon, at least in terms of the Slinky operator! :D

Why does mercurial not make as much sense? Just interested as I love mercurial.

Most people coming from CSV or SVN hate git the first time they use it. I sure did.

It’s not until you actually start working with it on projects with multiple people that you see why it makes SVN look like it’s the MS Paint to Photoshop.

Give it a try, a real try and you’ll see why everyone is using it. Tinkering with it really wont give you any idea why it’s so great though.

Yup we use BitBucket for private repos (the cost of githubs no longer made sense) and it’s been great. The only big flaw it has is that you cant search through code like you can with github. Cant complain when it’s free though! :)

In reply to Jim Manley.

So, Jim . . . You successfully earthed (sorry, grounded) your slinky! ;) Otherwise, must be one of those strange American socket things. We really must get our friends across the Pond onto proper BS1363 sockets! Much safer for them!

In reply to Ben Nuttall.

For my non-open-source commercial work, of course!

Yup Will’s made me into a GitHub convert. I was happy in a land that comprised of a mix of Subversion and Dropbox (and we did use Dropbox to manage The MagPi files for a while) and wasn’t madly keen on all this new fangled git stuff. But now: blimey I don’t see how we would synchronise all of our work without it!

Give you an example: as we’re based around the globe there have been several times when a deadline has been approaching and I’ve been finishing off a page or two and run out of time (watch says ZZZzzzz O’clock). I’ve checked in and then someone in North America, where it’s still day(ish)time has updated with my changes and finished off what I was working on.

GitHub and git work so well.

fwiw,

neither I nor the rktrlng, who added a further tutorial, understand git well enough to confidently pull his fork.
ie we have different approaches, and I don’t want my code compromised.

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