Ask HN: Have you seen any cool / innovative uses of git and/or github?

mojombo · on July 6, 2011

https://github.com/github/gollum - The git-backed wiki that powers GitHub Wikis.

https://github.com/technoweenie/madrox - Distributed Twitter implementation in Git.

https://github.com/schacon/ticgit - Git-based distributed ticketing system.

https://github.com/progit/progit - Pro Git book using GitHub to facilitate translations into 25 languages.

http://code.google.com/p/gource/ - Visualize the activity on a git repo (OpenGL).

gvb · on July 6, 2011

git-annex

http://kitenet.net/~joey/blog/entry/databranches/ "databranches: using git as a database"

http://git-annex.branchable.com/ "git-annex is a git subcommand that allows tracking large files in git -- without the bother of feeding their contents into the git repository!"

RexRollman · on July 6, 2011

Joey Hess keeps his home directory in git, if I recall correctly.

beagle3 · on July 6, 2011

bup is a backup system by Avery Pennarun (apenwarr). It is "the awesome" - it is fast, de-duplicating, awesome, and yet a regular git repository.

sparkleshare is a dropbox-like system that uses git as a back end (Mac OSX and Linux only for now)

lee337 · on July 11, 2011

http://github-high-scores.heroku.com - a fun way to rank Github repository contributors in a 8-bit, arcadey, 80's-tastic viewing environment.

choochootrain · on July 6, 2011

flashbake is version control for writers based off git. It checks specified directories every 15 minutes for changes

rawsyntax · on July 6, 2011

what you saw was probably github pages, it's not really innovative, it's actually built into the site