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I’ve never had much use for source control, but after that one thread broke /prog/scrape I realised it might be useful to have somewhere centralised to put the source code and recent diffs, instead of just having a possibly-up-to-date file hidden here somewhere and having people download that whenever their shit breaks without really knowing if I fixed it yet.
Github was an obvious choice, not least because bandwagons are awesome, but then I lost interest and forgot about it until now.

Incidentally, when you create a new repository on Github, it automatically generates a URL for you to push to, of the form git@github.com:​username/​projectname.git. The project name can’t have any characters outside [a-zA-Z0-9-], though, so when it does they’re replaced with dashes.
Whoever wrote that piece of code, though, forgot that project names apparently also can’t start with a dash, so when you try to push to it, it just gives you an unhelpful error message:

Invalid repository url. Make sure you include the .git, e.g. git@github.com:defunkt/ambition.git

And then it breaks the connection, which is particularly nice when your first experience with git involves pushing a project named -prog-scrape.
Anyway, easy enough to fix. I do like that it uses ssh, so I don’t have to type my password every time. I’ll probably be creating additional repos for my many, many other projects that people find useful.

tl;dr: http://github.com/Cairnarvon/progscrape/tree/master