Make quick fixes quicker on Google Project Hosting

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43 points·abraham··10 comments

Hopefully this does bridge the gap between lurker and contributor! There are many times that I myself have wanted to contribute a one-liner, just to find that I need to signup and confirm membership to a mailing list, or open an issue with a registered account, etc, etc... so, this could be cool

This is really fantastic. I'm going to start browsing Google Code Projects now. :)

Yeah, it's a neat idea. It has now become 100x easier to submit source patches than changes to Wikipedia!

I hope Github adds this as well.

You can already edit files from your own repos on GitHub from web browsers.

Now only if they would add in the on-the-fly diff view, as well as a real in-browser editor widget instead of a simple textarea

I use the Bespin scriptlet to turn the Github edit textarea into a code window.

javascript:(function(){var elem=document.createElement('script');elem.setAttribute('src','https://bespin.mozillalabs.com/bookmarklet/bookmarklet.js);document.body.appendChild(elem);})()

Just tried this out today for the first time, actually, to see if the workflow was doable on my CR-48.

I don't understand. How can you commit code that has not been tested?

I don't understand. Do you think is supposed to be an IDE replacement or something?

Anything that lowers the barriers to entry, at least for submitting patches, is fantastic in my book. My contributions are certainly going to increase. +1 for GitHub support!

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