[Discuss] Github/hardware (Was Re: discuss Digest, Vol 10, Issue 99)

Tue Mar 26 22:46:09 UTC 2013

I will concur here. 
We use git for our hardware projects. 
While it might be nice to do visual diffs that is more a function of the cad program.

On Mar 26, 2013, at 3:42 PM, "Windell H. Oskay" <windell at oskay.net> wrote:

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> On Mar 26, 2013, at 3:17 PM, Matt Maier <blueback09 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Git was created by software engineers, for software engineers. Github naturally grew out of that, but we are all aware of the fact that Github cannot handle the complexity of hardware projects. 
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> I don't think that your generalization is quite valid; many of us on the mailing list are actually using Github for hardware projects.
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> Can you please explain, what it is exactly about the complexity of hardware projects that you think Github cannot handle?   
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> -Windell
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