[GAP Forum] GAP is now available on github.com

[Sandeep Murthy]

I was referring to the Git protocol you are using when you do something like

    git clone git://github.com/<user name>/<repo name>

Of course this is not GitHub’s as such.

You can use SSH but key management can be just as problematic, or
if you forget that really long passphrase you used when you first generated the
keys.  With HTTPS you can avoid typing your GitHub password frequently if you
use something called a credential helper to cache your GitHub password in Git -

https://help.github.com/articles/caching-your-github-password-in-git

Sandeep Murthy
s.murthy at mykolab.com

> On 3 Mar 2015, at 18:48, Dima Pasechnik <dmitrii.pasechnik at cs.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> Dear Sandeep,
> 
> On Tue, Mar 03, 2015 at 09:53:42AM +1100, Sandeep Murthy wrote:
>> In CONTRIBUTING.md I think you should consider changing the instructions to
>> recommend HTTPS over plain Git for cloning - there’s no server verification with
> 
> github does not provide "plain" git protocol, so it is either https or ssh.
> I'd recomment using ssh, as one can use ssh-agent to avoid typing the passphrase
> over and over again.
> 
> HTH,
> Dima
> 
>> Git, whereas HTTPS does this using CAs, plus depending on where you are the
>> Git protocol may not even work, whereas HTTPS generally works everywhere.
>> Pushing via HTTPS requires your GitHub password and this is good for code
>> integrity.
>> 
>> HTTPS is also GitHub's recommended protocol for cloning repos.
>> 
>> Sandeep Murthy
>> s.murthy at mykolab.com
>> 
>>> On 3 Mar 2015, at 01:15, Markus Pfeiffer <markus.pfeiffer at morphism.de> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Dear all,
>>> 
>>> Since last Friday there exists an up-to-date copy of the GAP source code on
>>> github.com under
>>> 
>>> https://github.com/gap-system/gap
>>> 
>>> This will be the official development repository for GAP as of now, and GAP
>>> 4.8 and all future versions of GAP will be made from this repository.
>>> 
>>> For those interested in HPC-GAP there is a branch in the repository that
>>> contains the current source code of HPC-GAP. Alas, at this point it doesn't
>>> compile as it is from the repository as it is missing a dependency. We hope to
>>> resolve this very soon.
>>> 
>>> We invite everyone to contribute bugreports, bugfixes, documentation,
>>> documentation fixes, and code to GAP via so-called "issues" and "pull requests"
>>> on github.
>>> 
>>> There is some guidance on how we would like contributions to work in the file
>>> 
>>> https://github.com/gap-system/gap/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md
>>> 
>>> If you have any questions, or suggestions for GAP, the repository, or documentation,
>>> feel free to contact us via the GAP mailing list gap at gap-system.org, or submit an
>>> issue or a pull request on github.
>>> 
>>> We are looking forward to hearing from you!
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> Markus
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