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by mhartl
4248 days ago
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GitHub is indeed the 800 lb. Git gorilla in the OSS world, so I don't doubt that your main motivation is to serve the interests of your readers, but it's probably a good idea to disclose the potential conflict of interest (namely, that Pro Git coauthor Scott Chacon was GitHub's first employee and still works there). |
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The conflict of interest does bother me, so I did try to be as clear as I could about it and to point out at the beginning of the chapter that you could easily skip it if you don't like or don't want to use GitHub. I also stayed away from everything I could that required payment.
The truth is that I've been approached to write books specifically about GitHub for several years so I thought that the demand for that sort of information was high enough to warrant moving it to it's own chapter. Had I been approached about writing about other resources I would probably have also included them.
The more difficult decision was whether to include information on Gerrit. I actually started writing a section on it, then considered a chapter or appendix. The main deciding factor was how many people I thought might benefit from it.