[CornishPasty]

In that case why are they using GitHub?

[dsymonds]

GitHub is only a mirror. The real work is happening on go.googlesource.com.

https://groups.google.com/d/topic/golang-dev/sckirqOWepg/dis...

[nemothekid]

Linux is on Github as well (https://github.com/torvalds/linux) , and probably like Linus, some people don't like the Pull-request method for dealing with contributions.

[sfk]

Linux is on https://git.kernel.org/cgit/ .

[vertex-four]

GitHub provides the best web-based git repository browser, as well as various other useful features. The only other reasonable alternative for a large open-source project, aside from self-hosting, is bitbucket.

[sfk]

I disagree. GitHub looks cluttered and the contrast is too low for speed reading. I prefer the hg interface, for example:

https://hg.python.org/cpython/

Another interface I prefer is:

http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/

[rplnt]

I would like to disagree with the "the best". Mostly because it's obviously your opinion and not something you can say definitely.

[snowwrestler]

Lot of replies here disagreeing that GitHub is "the best", and offering alternatives.

Allow me to suggest that GitHub is at minimum the most-visited web-based git repo, which means that if you want a lot of people to view and use your code, it's a good place to mirror.

[sampo]

> GitHub provides the best web-based git repository browser

I like Bitbucket's side-by-side diff view so much, that I think I prefer Bitbucker for browsing.

But this is only because Bitbucket has the side-by-side diff view, anf GitHub does not.

[1wd]

Could you describe what makes it the best repository browser?

I like e.g. https://trac.openstreetmap.org/browser/chef

[farresito]

So that they have the wiki+issues stuff.