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Re: GitHub is down

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Yeah, because Gitlab would never go down. https://hn.algolia.com/?q=gitlab+down

Gitlab can be self hosted

And we all know self-hosted software never goes down.

Although I guess the benefit is that the CTO gets a psychological lift of looking over Jeremy from IT's shoulder when he tries to fix the issue rather than being at the mercy of some engineers which the company can't fire.

Re: GitHub is down

#52
post #42

The fact that GitHub being down can have such an impact means that Git’s decentralised features don’t go far enough. Why aren’t issues, PRs and all these other little things we depend on also stored in a git repo? Or something similar that can withstand GitHub being down. I set aside time today to go through my notifications and I can’t because of this. Notifications are trickier to decentralise but still, ugh.

heh, this was my argument back in like 2009 when everyone was all, "DECENTRALIZED!! We have to take months to migrate from SVN to git cause DECENTRALIZED!! You don't one a single point of failure do you?!"

all I could say was, uhhhh github is a single point of failure. Unless you're mailing diffs around like Linus (which nobody I knew did), it's 6 of one, half-dozen of the other.

there are lots of great things about git and especially git over e.g. svn (especially merges) but I never bought the decentralization argument the way it was spearheading the conversation back then.

Re: GitHub is down

#53

Wonder why mine[1] got marked as a duplicate when it was posted first? 1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35817640

so unfair. This happens to me too sometimes. It's like not a perfect system.

Tough making a living on imaginary internet points.

Re: GitHub is down

#54
post #42

The fact that GitHub being down can have such an impact means that Git’s decentralised features don’t go far enough. Why aren’t issues, PRs and all these other little things we depend on also stored in a git repo? Or something similar that can withstand GitHub being down. I set aside time today to go through my notifications and I can’t because of this. Notifications are trickier to decentralise but still, ugh.

I fail to see how this is git's problem. Who was forced to use GitHub because git doesn't provide issue tracking?

That being said, Fossil has what you want. Are you willing to switch?

Re: GitHub is down

#56
post #42

The fact that GitHub being down can have such an impact means that Git’s decentralised features don’t go far enough. Why aren’t issues, PRs and all these other little things we depend on also stored in a git repo? Or something similar that can withstand GitHub being down. I set aside time today to go through my notifications and I can’t because of this. Notifications are trickier to decentralise but still, ugh.

Everything you described are features of GitHub not Git. They are not the same... despite the name.

With that in mind, your comment is similar to complaining about Jira being down, or Jenkins... they are different products.

Re: GitHub is down

#57
post #42

The fact that GitHub being down can have such an impact means that Git’s decentralised features don’t go far enough. Why aren’t issues, PRs and all these other little things we depend on also stored in a git repo? Or something similar that can withstand GitHub being down. I set aside time today to go through my notifications and I can’t because of this. Notifications are trickier to decentralise but still, ugh.

"Everything goes in the repo" is one of the main features of the Fossil [0] SCM which is built and used by the SQLite team. It's a neat idea and I wish something like that had caught on.

[0] https://www.fossil-scm.org/

Re: GitHub is down

#58
post #42

The fact that GitHub being down can have such an impact means that Git’s decentralised features don’t go far enough. Why aren’t issues, PRs and all these other little things we depend on also stored in a git repo? Or something similar that can withstand GitHub being down. I set aside time today to go through my notifications and I can’t because of this. Notifications are trickier to decentralise but still, ugh.

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Re: GitHub is down

#60
post #42

The fact that GitHub being down can have such an impact means that Git’s decentralised features don’t go far enough. Why aren’t issues, PRs and all these other little things we depend on also stored in a git repo? Or something similar that can withstand GitHub being down. I set aside time today to go through my notifications and I can’t because of this. Notifications are trickier to decentralise but still, ugh.

What do you even mean? Github made a decentralized service a centralized one by encapsulating it. This “impact” isn’t the fault of Git at all.
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