What do people do to get around this? Run my own git server like the good 'ol days? Github has become a central source of failure for us now...
Work locally? It's Git.
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#22They shutdown the servers because they discovered that at least half of them didn't identify as female.
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#23Does this mean we get the day off?
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#24Seems like they're saying it's maintenance now?
$ gl
fatal: remote error:
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#25It's sometimes up ( perhaps bad to say this --> everyone will refresh )...
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#26What do people do to get around this? Run my own git server like the good 'ol days? Github has become a central source of failure for us now...
With each GitHub failure people learn some good lessons. Redundancy is the key. Push to multiple remotes and fall back to backup remotes in your scripts.
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#27Tangential: Slack was down for a bit earlier today as well.
I'm seeing errors on Segment.com as well.
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#29What do people do to get around this? Run my own git server like the good 'ol days? Github has become a central source of failure for us now...
If everyone has SSH access to a server somewhere, it's easy to just put a git repo there to let everyone keep working.
Obviously, this doesn't trivially scale to many repos/users/etc, which is why Github exists in the first place.
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#30And now the office goes to the keg.