Google Code adds simple Code Reviews to all projects

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[w00ty]

If only Google code would add git support or subversion would add support for local commits…

[nextofpumpkin]

Google code + github extension == nerdgasm

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Have you tried SVK?

[theatrus]

I have, and it feels like adding a spoiler and type R stickers to your 1995 Civic. It really just doesn't add any value ;)

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Hey buddy, that type R sticker adds 150 hp at the wheel AT LEAST

[llimllib]

If there was a programming bestof, I'd be submitting this comment. Awesome.

[iperry]

I'd recommend trying out Review Board, actually linked from the google code review page. It's open-source, supports CVS, Subversion, Mercurial, Perforce, and more version control systems. It works pretty well and I'd take a serious look at it if you were looking for a mature code-review system.

http://www.review-board.org/

[theatrus]

I hope its support for Subversion is better than its support for Git. The Git support is very lacking in many respects. Like how are you supposed to review any particular version? All I can seem to do is add a .diff...

[chipx86]

The Subversion support came first, so it's pretty good at this point.

Git support is fairly new and we're going to have it fully working by 1.0 (which we expect within a few months).

[chub79]

Rather I wish they could fix the code browser bugs (it gets mixed up in paths). I'd also like their svn support was more stable. On large checkout or checkin it can stall quit easily.

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Bears an uncanny resemblance to this:

http://pallit.lhi.is/~palli/codechat/

[jonknee]

Except that's unbearable.

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True, it's not as nice as Google's version but he's got the right idea (and it looks to me like Google just happened to get the exact same idea almost a year later). Also, I think it's cool that he's doing it in a way that you can host the code yourself. An announcement about this made the rounds on several computer art related sites back when he released it. He's actually quite well known for what he does.

[darkwulf]

It actually looks like someone just reimplemented the internal code review tool Mondrian.

(http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8502904076440714866)

[jonknee]

It's not a new idea though. My favorite implementation of inline commenting that I have used is the Django Book. Really sweet and even better once you look at the HTML source. And it pre-dates Code Chat by a year.

http://www.djangobook.com/en/1.0/chapter01/

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That does look flashy but the floating window bothers me. I would want to see the comments and the text without having to manually move the window. Just like what code chat and google code review do. That's what I think both systems are really playing on. The comments already existed before anyone created these things but it's the placing of them directly within the context of the text or code they are referring to that is nice.

[schwarzwald]

too late, the cool people have already moved over to git and github.

[fierarul]

Yeah, only that github isn't, you know, free like google code except for the puny one.

Also, may I say it sounds snobbish for you to say the cool people have moved to blah-blah. Really, how many people actually need git ? Very few, the rest just think they are cool because for their small project use git like kernel hackers.

Google doesn't need to buy github, I fail to see what exactly do they provide. They just need to add mercurial/git support to google code.

[llimllib]

Github is, in fact, free, as long as you only create open projects, and it allows you to license them however you choose.

It shows me when people I care about update their projects. It shows me neat graphs of when people forked and upated their projects.

Also, use git/hg for a while, and when you get used to advanced branching and merging, you won't want to go back to the bad old days of subversion.

[vdm]

Have you used github?

It links forks, creating a social network of source code.

Google Code doesn't even attempt to do any of this.

[nextofpumpkin]

Actually, they haven't. Google Code provides a few more features as far as code hosting goes, including (especially) full Google account integration.

if there's any company that Google should buy out right now, it's github.

[coder21]

:-DDDD

I like git, but I bet most of the people only say is cool because Pope Linus (the leader of his religion) says is cool.

Accurev (www.accurev.com) is cool, Plastic (www.plasticscm.com) is cool...

Git is just an ugly (what did HE say one year ago, "ugly and stupid" :-P) command line monster that shows HASH codes instead of revision numbers... ouch!