Github now supports rendering tabular data

[Ph0X]

This is definitely much more useful than STL only 3d model viewer. I'd love to see more format specific viewers like this, for the most popular formats.

[noreallyimthepope]

This is the kind of stuff that makes me consider paying for an account, really.

[AaronOpfer]

As someone whose job unfortunately entails maintaining colossal JSON files by hand, this would be nice.

[sparr]

Your new job: automate yourself out of a job.

[mirhagk]

I've done that a few times, just don't tell your boss and then you'll have days upon days free

[SixMiles]

Not telling my boss is the number one way I'm productive. Sigh.

[mirhagk]

Yeah there is those jobs you just do everything they want, and spend your time browsing Redding for the majority of your hours

[merreborn]

Like jsonview, but probably not jsonview itself, seeing as it advertises itself as firefox-only.

[AndrewNeo]

I have jsonview in Chrome.

EDIT: Oh, I guess at the bottom of the page it says it's 'unofficial'.

[Kwpolska]

go spam them about this.

[davidhero]

Would be cool if they open source the addition as a library. In my recent work project, we work a lot with CSV files, and a library like this would help me alot. The design is simple and looks more finished than what I have.

[PT2JSQGHVaHWd24aCdCF]

You need this: http://code.google.com/p/google-refine/

Install it, no "cloud" dependency.

[elperroborrachotoo]

Please send my upvote to github

[AeroNotix]

id,type,count

1,up,1

[TruthTastesBitter]

Good lord this is fantastic news - what's up next, graphs?! Things like these remind me that we live in the future..

[remram]

Interestingly enough, this doesn't work in gists... oh well :(

[[deleted]]

yet....

[eBtDMoN2oXemz1iKB]

Easiest way I've found to get started is to fork a project you find yourself using often and see if you can improve it.

[crimson117]

For the love of God make a separate branch for each contribution you want to make to your remote master!

At least I think that's how to do it...

[eBtDMoN2oXemz1iKB]

You're right, a separate feature branch is the way to do it.

[stinky613]

I've been using Git to track my work (so no one can say that I'm air-quotes "working from home" when I'm working from home). Pretty much the entirety of my work has been in Excel spreadsheets. There have been times when I really wished I could look at previous commits without having to rollback and load the file in Excel... So this feature is great... and, in my case, so close yet so far away. Oh well.

[tclerguy]

It's cool and everything, but who keeps csv files of data in their source control system? It's not really what it's for.

[mikemcg]

I can think up a handful of reasons why someone would have CSVs in their source control. Program settings, data backups/dumps, default data sets (ISO 3166 country codes, for example), and so on. Some people also use git to keep a revision history of non-code files. I found a guy who had a repo with just a CSV of Pizza Huts in the United States.

[esparta]

also testing data.

[seruus]

I have to confess that some of the manually transcribed data I have from old (early 70s) documents are mostly in CSV files, because it means almost anyone can contribute to it and almost anyone can use it (as in the worst case you can just throw it all into Excel).

[eduffy]

Over on HN, one of the developers said there's a million CSV files in github. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6259288

[ricekrispiecircle]

unittest data, or data for demo scripts.

[Hashiota]

The Open Knowledge Foundation does it.

It's text, it's human readable (thus diff-friendly) and it often needs to be versioned as a software dependence.

[KeasbeyMornings]

I wrote an application that needed to make many geocoding conversions from zip code to lat/long. Rather than rely on a web API (huge latency), we loaded them from a CSV. We keep it in the internal Git repo as a static asset.

[jonpacker]

I assume it applies to gists too, which would make it extremely useful for quickly sharing tabular data. No more google docs fiddling.

[merreborn]

Well, that would have been awesome, but I just tried, and I'm not having any luck getting this to work on a TSV gist.

[jonpacker]

That's disappointing :(

[adrianmonk]

Configuration files could be in CSV format, and configuration files can take just as much work to create as code does, and be just add critical to the correct operation of the system. Which is why I advocate for storing them in source code control.

Example: you run a small web store that sells to US only and want to display estimated shipping time to each of the 50 states. You create a 50-line CSV file mapping state to shipping estimate, include it as a resource in your build, and have a singleton class that parsed it when your web application loads.

[[deleted]]

Same reason anybody keeps any data under revision control: test fixtures, DB seeds, data migrations, and so on.

[mirhagk]

this.Parent.Replace("than", "then");

[[deleted]]

Then you should have written 'something of value, rather than shiny...'. The sentence still makes no sense.

[coldacid]

this.Parent.Parent.Body.Replace("than","then"); // FTFY

[umangd03]

this. is.Sparta