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Re: Ask HN: Apps that are built with Git as the back end?

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Post by simonw » Wed, Oct 19, 2022, 7:06 PM UTC

ukd1 wrote: post #32

simonw wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I love that pattern. I call it "git scraping" and I've been writing about it for a few years (and building tools too): https://simonwillison.net/series/git-scraping/

Interesting - I've been doing similar for a while (not writing about it though), but generally "self-commit" - i.e. the code in the repo commits back to itself, usuualy using github actions, or gitlab. E.g. https://github.com/ukd1/lvms-events

That's a great example of the same pattern, really neat!

If you like you could tag it git-scraping to add it to this list: https://github.com/topics/git-scraping

Re: Ask HN: Apps that are built with Git as the back end?

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Post by est » Wed, Oct 19, 2022, 8:26 PM UTC

samuelstros wrote: post #27

est wrote: post #12

I have the same question, I am have a git based static generated blog, I am looking for something like 1. A git based tool to scrobble the music I am listening to, like Last.FM. 2. A status logger, I really, really miss the old MSN or GTalk days when there's a status line to show what my friends are doing or their mood. In fact most people have forgotten that's the original case for twitter. 3. A git based comment sy…

Can you elaborate why 3, a git-based comment system, is beneficial? When do comments need to be merged? PS There is a small web sdk that enables comments on sited via github issues. see https://github.com/utterance/utterances

> a git-based comment system, is beneficial?

I don't need no db or a web API to store comments. A db need some moving parts to serve http, a third party service is unreliable in the long run. Comments can be stored as part of a static site, like in json for csv format, as it's frequently read but rarely written. Static files are easy to integrate into any webpage, easy to backup, migrate and grep.

I realize there are some problems yet to be solved, e.g. mask email address of the commentor.

Re: Ask HN: Apps that are built with Git as the back end?

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Post by mattkoster » Wed, Oct 19, 2022, 8:46 PM UTC

Ansible Automation Platform (Formerly Ansible Tower) uses git as the backend. https://www.ansible.com/products/controller

Re: Ask HN: Apps that are built with Git as the back end?

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Post by samuelstros » Wed, Oct 19, 2022, 9:42 PM UTC

est wrote: post #52

samuelstros wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you elaborate why 3, a git-based comment system, is beneficial? When do comments need to be merged? PS There is a small web sdk that enables comments on sited via github issues. see https://github.com/utterance/utterances

> a git-based comment system, is beneficial? I don't need no db or a web API to store comments. A db need some moving parts to serve http, a third party service is unreliable in the long run. Comments can be stored as part of a static site, like in json for csv format, as it's frequently read but rarely written. Static files are easy to integrate into any webpage, easy to backup, migrate and grep. I realize there are…

Thank you, that makes sense.

Re: Ask HN: Apps that are built with Git as the back end?

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Post by Traubenfuchs » Wed, Oct 19, 2022, 10:15 PM UTC

Spring Cloud Config Server, allowing git versioned configuration of all your spring services + changing config in running services without restart. Alternatively sql or several other backends can be used.

https://cloud.spring.io/spring-cloud-config/multi/multi__spr...

Re: Ask HN: Apps that are built with Git as the back end?

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Post by solarkraft » Wed, Oct 19, 2022, 10:46 PM UTC

Logseq (local alternative to Roam, comparable to Obsidian) has a Git plugin. I think Syncthing lets you use Git for versioning.

Re: Ask HN: Apps that are built with Git as the back end?

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Post by gmarx » Wed, Oct 19, 2022, 11:58 PM UTC

My medical terminology value set creation tool uses git (well, a java implementation of git) to store and version value sets

Re: Ask HN: Apps that are built with Git as the back end?

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Post by senorsmile » Thu, Oct 20, 2022, 2:08 AM UTC

mattkoster wrote: post #53

Ansible Automation Platform (Formerly Ansible Tower) uses git as the backend. https://www.ansible.com/products/controller

Which means that the open source upstream awx does as well?

Re: Ask HN: Apps that are built with Git as the back end?

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Post by ukd1 » Thu, Oct 20, 2022, 2:18 AM UTC

simonw wrote: post #51

ukd1 wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interesting - I've been doing similar for a while (not writing about it though), but generally "self-commit" - i.e. the code in the repo commits back to itself, usuualy using github actions, or gitlab. E.g. https://github.com/ukd1/lvms-events

That's a great example of the same pattern, really neat! If you like you could tag it git-scraping to add it to this list: https://github.com/topics/git-scraping

Thanks, and never thought of that; will do!

Re: Ask HN: Apps that are built with Git as the back end?

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Post by sebazzz » Thu, Oct 20, 2022, 4:54 AM UTC

mcprwklzpq wrote: post #17

The Office 365 backend uses git to store snapshots of documents. [1] https://github.com/microsoft/FluidFramework/tree/main/server...

That is not exactly what it says. It says it uses a content-adressable system and you can talk to it as if it was git.