OT: GitHub

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On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 11:25:31PM -0500, Jose Lerebours via Filepro-list thus spoke:
> On 01/24/2017 11:21 PM, Ken Cole wrote:
> >Generally or specifically with FilePro code?
> >
> Generally ... it seems that this is like a must have in the IT World
> and frankly, I cannot see its value for anything than a "repository"
> or means to share your source code.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revision_Control_System

Yes, it is useful with filePro.  Slightly less so with indexes, because
you're dealing with the intermingling of the structure and the data, but
you can basically rebuild your indexes if you know what they were built
against.

You wouldn't really want to use GitHub as a "cloud" solution for
proprietary corporate software, since it's meant for OSS, and I'm really
not a fan of "the cloud" for many specific tasks anyway.  

However, I've been using GitLab and git recently.

https://about.gitlab.com/

If you make the effort to plan and adopt a usage pattern, you can save
yourself a lot of pain, and make version control a lot more elegant than
simple prayer allows.

mark->
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