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Think Twice Before Downgrading to a Free GitHub Account

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Re: Think Twice Before Downgrading to a Free GitHub Account

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Post by johnchristopher »

latchkey wrote: post #4

> I live in mortal fear of making a dumb mistake and losing irreplaceable source code. Then store backups of your repositories somewhere else than GitHub.

Exactly. Git and github aren't backup tools. I always feel like github (and others) added to the git workflow things that are bolted on top of it and tie you to their platform.

Re: Think Twice Before Downgrading to a Free GitHub Account

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Post by wikwocket »

For what it's worth, protected branches are pretty clearly listed as a "Github Pro" feature in their pricing page.

I agree that it'd be nice if they warned you about features you're using that will be turned off, but I don't think it's unreasonable to expect that people requesting downgrades understand which features are in which plan.

Maybe this could be suggested to GitHub's Paperclips project, to avoid future confusion?

Re: Think Twice Before Downgrading to a Free GitHub Account

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Post by stkdump »

johnchristopher wrote: post #5
latchkey wrote: post #4

> I live in mortal fear of making a dumb mistake and losing irreplaceable source code. Then store backups of your repositories somewhere else than GitHub.

Exactly. Git and github aren't backup tools. I always feel like github (and others) added to the git workflow things that are bolted on top of it and tie you to their platform.

Slightly offtopic, I have always considered a strange failure of git that branches are second class citizen in git, not worthy of the same versioning mechanisms as files. It is not unreasonable to expect a versioning system to be able to track the history of branches. And if I don't want to loose a file, just because it was deleted some time in the past, surely I also don't want to loose a branchjust because it was deleted. I don't buy the 'I want to be able to hide f-ups' argument.

Re: Think Twice Before Downgrading to a Free GitHub Account

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Post by jsmeaton »

stkdump wrote: post #9
johnchristopher wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Exactly. Git and github aren't backup tools. I always feel like github (and others) added to the git workflow things that are bolted on top of it and tie you to their platform.

Slightly offtopic, I have always considered a strange failure of git that branches are second class citizen in git, not worthy of the same versioning mechanisms as files. It is not unreasonable to expect a versioning system to be able to track the history of branches. And if I don't want to loose a file, just because it was deleted some time in the past, surely I also don't want to loose a branchjust because it was d…

Doesn’t the reflog serve that purpose though? Branches are just labels for a commit, and all commits (and names) are visible in the reflog.
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