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PHP source code now hosted on Github

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Note, to those that wonder: It moved to git.php.net as github only contains a mirror. And other parts of the PHP project are still in transition. There's also a mercurial mirror. The PHP source module is named php-src.

Thanks for the clarification. It's been mirrored on github for a long time, but it's almost always a pretty old release.

To OP, "hosted on git" and "hosted on github" are two very different things.

While that is true they now encourages people to submit patches as github pull requests: https://wiki.php.net/vcs/gitworkflow

Wow. I think one of the coolest things about this, is seeing a GitHub repo with some of the commits being from 12 years ago. Gives you an idea of how long PHP's been around as compared to a lot of the projects floating around GH.

Python - first commit, 22 years ago

https://github.com/python-git/python/commit/463d099321a4572e...

(Current first page: https://github.com/python-git/python/commits/master?page=117... )

Perl - first commit, 24 years ago

Amazing title: a "replacement" for awk and sed

https://github.com/mirrors/perl/commit/8d063cd8450e59ea1c611...

(Current first page: https://github.com/mirrors/perl/commits/ams/no-more-study?&#... )

Apparently the current Linux kernel repositories don't go back as far: http://kerneltrap.org/node/13996

I remember Linus saying they only keep the last 5 years of commits, because more isn't really necessary.

I think it's very dependent on the project. There really are times in php-src when you want to be able to go back a fair way, since the last significant change to function's implementation may well have been 10 years ago in the early 4.x days (and Git is going to be a huge win for us there over Subversion).

I wouldn't be surprised if it makes much less sense for the kernel, though.

It's weird to see PHP as being comprised of 62.5% C, though obviously it makes sense.

Does this mean they will also use the GitHub issues instead of bugzilla? I would very much welcome this.

I'm nitpicking, but they were never using bugzilla but their own system (which now lives here: http://git.php.net/?p=web/bugs.git;a=summary)

Also, github is just a mirror. The main repo is on git.php.net where they are continuing to use their karma based everyone-commits-to-a-central-repo system (see http://git.php.net/?p=karma.git;a=summary). This goes together with the rest of the infrastructure that they continue to self-host

it is a DVCS. it doesnt matter where it's hosted. external contributors should use github, core developers will go through git.php.net. it's all the same.

PHP's always used it's own tracker (http://bugs.php.net).

Ban Rasmus please.

Heh. It was a tongue-in-cheek reference to http://svn.php.net/viewvc/php/php-src/trunk/ext/standard/php...

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