This is probably more important to people who want to work on Verge itself, but it was a recent decision to move Verge's source code out of SVN and into a
Git repository for better version control.
Github was just the right place.
Git allows each and every person to have their own individual fork, if they so choose. No more centralized repository, instead each person who wants to work has their own individual copy of the code in a separate clone. Anyone can be a developer, no need to ask for permission to start working on the engine, you can commit to your own fork as much as you want, or pull changes from other people. My branch is
http://github.com/Bananattack/verge3/
Good (tested, working, useful) changes and fixed can get pulled into one of the core Verge maintainers' branches, and when everything works and seems "release-worthy", can be packaged together into a new official Verge release by the main devs here.
Along with this, the source is a lot easier to view from the web, as github has its own friendly file browser and colorful syntax highlighting on files.
You will need a Git client to get things going. On Windows, I recommend using msysgit. And, it's still pretty convenient to slip people zip or tar.gz of source now if you don't want to use git, by simply using github's download options available.
So let's make the move happen!
My branch is here!
