Comment 2 for bug 104564

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Erik Hahn (erikhahn) wrote : Re: [Bug 104564] Re: git based import for projects in addition to cvs and svn import

On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 10:40:30PM -0000, daly wrote:
> ** Description changed:
>
> Please add git based import functionality to the launchpad, so that we can directly import source code for projects and products for git repositories.
> So we can also use it for building for packages other than CVS and SVN.
> Most of the projects are switching to git, So I would like ask you to please develop a mechanism so we can import code into projects/products from git repositories
> +
> + In particular, you need closer integration with github.com
> + Launchpad apparently will let me build packages that Ubuntu users can download
> + which is a nice feature. However, while I already support arch, svn, cvs, and git (the
> + project is moving to all git eventually) I really don't want to create and learn bazaar
> + just to host on launchpad. So the URL
> + git://github.com/daly/axiom.git
> + should "just work"

In which way do you think accessing a git repository is anything special
only because it happens to be hosted on Github?