Re: GitHub's ³pull request² is proprietary lock-in

[Christian Gollwitzer]

Am 04.01.16 um 06:29 schrieb Paul Rubin:
> Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Sun, Jan 3, 2016 at 9:42 PM, Paul Rubin <no.email at nospam.invalid> wrote:
>>> Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> writes:
>>>> If you're not using a GitHub PR, then what you're doing is using GH to
>>>> host your repository.
>>> What's the point of GH in that situation?
>> Mainly hosting, plus you can use gh-pages and other features. Plenty.
>
> GH pages are just normal web pages with markdown processing, right?

Yes. The processor is freely available (jekyll, written in Ruby). It's 
usual to put up a local server (jekyl --serve) while updating the pages, 
befor you publish them, which is done by a git commit/push to the 
gh-pages branch.

> What other features?  And doesn't that come back around to getting
> locked into the walled garden?


For the pages definitely not.

	Christian