GitHub Outage • Hacker News Board

Re: GitHub Outage

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Post by voltagex_ » Thu, Jan 28, 2016, 1:39 AM UTC

johnhenry wrote: post #81

Luckily, git is a distributed control system and we all remembered to: git remote add backup git push backup

I'd actually like a gitolite-like system that takes my pushes and replicates them among Gitlab/Github/Bitbucket/repo.or.cz. I'm sure it's possible with hooks, but every time I get around to looking into it, GitHub is back up

Re: GitHub Outage

#182

Post by rahulshiv7 » Thu, Jan 28, 2016, 1:40 AM UTC

Initially I was control R spamming, now I'm just pondering what a complete apocalypse will look like.

Re: GitHub Outage

#183

Post by why_advertise » Thu, Jan 28, 2016, 1:40 AM UTC

andhess wrote: post #163

cyansmoker wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

sadly, same

ok this is actually really annoying now

What the `zsh` working with `fuck` think of your comment on OSX:

git:(master) ok this is actually really annoying now

zsh: command not found: ok

git:(master) fuck

look this is actually really annoying now [enter/↑/↓/ctrl+c]

look: is: No such file or directory

git:(master) fuck

> No fucks given

That's kind of perfect.

Re: GitHub Outage

#184

Post by robertrobert » Thu, Jan 28, 2016, 1:40 AM UTC

Two little birdies have tweeted that there was an electrical fire at a key datacenter.

Re: GitHub Outage

#185

Post by iLoch » Thu, Jan 28, 2016, 1:41 AM UTC

AYBABTME wrote: post #3

Github is down. Post github.com on HackerNews, that'll help them. =P

To be fair, GitHub has scaled to the point where traffic probably isn't their concern.

Re: GitHub Outage

#186

Post by fpgaminer » Thu, Jan 28, 2016, 1:42 AM UTC

Relavant: GitTorrent: A Decentralized GitHub (http://blog.printf.net/articles/2015/05/29/announcing-gittor...)

The repo is at ... https://github.com/cjb/GitTorrent, so just clone that and ... oh ...

Re: GitHub Outage

#187

Post by iends » Thu, Jan 28, 2016, 1:42 AM UTC

lazyjones wrote: post #132

mirekrusin wrote: post #117

Google code was turned off and now github?

Can't update to a newer Go devel version; can't fetch Go packages, sigh ...

Why can't you update to a new Go devel version? The code on github is just a mirror of https://go.googlesource.com/go

Re: GitHub Outage

#188

Post by xdinomode » Thu, Jan 28, 2016, 1:43 AM UTC

Is this China again? Ughhh.

Re: GitHub Outage

#189

Post by wikiman » Thu, Jan 28, 2016, 1:44 AM UTC

DELETED because this joke has been made

Re: GitHub Outage

#190

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jan 28, 2016, 1:46 AM UTC

Perceptes wrote: post #170

Every time this happens people make clever remarks about how Git is distributed but we're all depending on GitHub for so much that we defeat the purpose. But once GitHub comes back up, everyone just gets back to work, trusting and relying on it as much as ever. Eventually it goes down again, and we come back to complain. Convenience is the only thing that we seem to value. (I'm no different, which makes my comment co…

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