Re: PG-Git usernames

On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 15:50, Gurjeet Singh <singh(dot)gurjeet(at)gmail(dot)com>
> wrote:
> > I hope this is the right forum to talk about git.postgresql.org
> >
> > My community login is singh.gurjeet, but our setup seems to not like the
> > special character there; users/singh.gurjeet/postgres is rejected.
> >
> > Would it be a problem if I requested users/gsingh/postgres ? I hope that
> > doesn't cause any trouble with gitweb or anything. Or can it be allowed
> to
> > have the preiod character there?
>
> That should be fine. I'm sure we could adapt the software to allow
> periods, but there is no tie between the directory and the username,
> so you can just use that. Or just "singhgurjeet" without the period.
>
> Or you could just use github which gives you more features at the

> same cost ;)
>

I like their competitive pricing :) which is why I created a
postgres/postgres fork there and started patching while waiting for this
one.

I was assuming that having a fork here at git.pg and then referring people
to my branches would be more convenient than asking them to check them out
on github. Any merits/demerits you see with github?

Regards,
--
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