GitHub officially launched today, after being in more-or-less-closed beta mode for a while. The site provides hosting of git repositories, free if your repositories are open to all. I’ve been meaning to check out git for a while so maybe the very neat looking repository and change browser will make me do just that.

I’m a while from giving up my current Subversion/Trac setup, but it’s cool to see version control moving forward nevertheless.

Git, of course, is the version control system written by Linus Torvalds the Linux developers lost their free BitKeeper license following allegations that Andrew Tridgell reverse engineered their protocol. It is meant to be superior for distributed development, maintaining local branches and merging. GitHub launches