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Why github Linus?

"[...] it was just the first one that came up when I googled for "git hosting". I've not tried any of the hosting places before, so it was a random choice."

(I don't know how to link a comment in google+, it's in https://plus.google.com/102150693225130002912/posts/PVZDD2N3... )

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You can link to comments, but you have to go source-diving for the containing div's ID; it doesn't appear to be exposed in the interface anywhere:

https://plus.google.com/102150693225130002912/posts/PVZDD2N3...

Edit: I take it back. It's completely screwed. There's a # in the ID, and it though it works when you add the fragment to the URL in the address bar while you're viewing the page, visiting the link afresh makes it explode.

Nice work, chaps. :-|

This seemed like an interesting challenge, so I ended up creating a bookmarklet that lets you link to a comment on a post url (not directly from the person's stream, however) by clicking on it.

https://gist.github.com/1193282

It also accounts for the height of the gbar and googleplus navbar, since linking directly to the anchor tag puts the comment directly at the top of the page, behind both of those fixed elements.

edit: example link to that comment: https://plus.google.com#102150693225130002912/posts/PVZDD2N3...

Maybe that's why it's not exposed in the first place. :P

WHen I google "git hosting", the first hit is git.kernel.org, then two stack overflow posts, then Gitorious, then GitHub. I wonder what my account contains that makes Google think Gitorious is more important to me.

You're seeing customised results. Try a fresh browser session with no cookies (Chrome's Incognito mode is invaluable for this - hit Cmd+Shift+N).

I'd just like to add that a search for "git hosting" on DDG ("duckgoing" if you will) yields, aside from the SO quick info box (which mentions Gitorious and Redmine), unfuddle.com is the first result, github doesn't show up until the fourth of fifth, and I haven't scrolled down to look for Gitorious. It does, however, show http://git-scm.com/tools as the second result, which includes a summary of the most popular hosters divided by categories.

I get github as the second.

you can also add &pws=0 to the url

I'm sure the fact that you work for Gitorious' parent company has nothing to do with it ;-)

I wonder if Google actually knows that, or if it's something else that causes it.

For me Github is the third hit and Gitorious is not even on the first page.

I'm unfamiliar with Google's indexing algorithm, but it's also possible that the rank of the top pages has shuffled between when Linus googled it and now.

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