[Daniel] All Your (Code) Base Are Belong To GitHub

Yay for a worn-out meme and a bigger hurrah for an awesome service! GitHub is a hosting solution for the Git version control system.

Why Git? Git provides a different model for version control from traditional centralized version control systems. Git uses a distributed model where every checkout is actually a complete repository. This means you have complete history along with all branches. Others can clone out of your checkout. And merging, something that traditionally very painful in systems like Subversion, is easy and pain-free. Not mention Git being extremely fast, space efficient and able to be used even while offline.

GitHub takes all the power and provides a great interface, easy code sharing and the ability to easily fork other projects hosted on GitHub. Built by Chris Wanstrath, Tom Preston-Werner and (apparently) PJ Hyett, the app is already solid for a beta and there's going to be quite a few more goodies added before launch. Others have already noted the interesting social aspects so I won't dog on that point too much.

GitHub comes highly recommended and I still have two invites available if anyone's interested.