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Re: Mozilla Firefox – Official GitHub repo

#21

Pretty cool that Linus Torvalds invented a completely distributed version control system and 20 years later we all use it to store our code in a single place.

To be fair, Git itself is a bit of a pain, and GitHub's main achievement is/was to make it somewhat bearable.

Re: Mozilla Firefox – Official GitHub repo

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Why GitHub? If they truly cared about open-source they would've chosen something else, such as a self-hosted Forgejo [1], or its most common public instance Codeberg [2]. [1] https://forgejo.org/ [2] https://codeberg.org/

Probably only for visibility. Or MS is in the process of sponsoring them.

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Re: Mozilla Firefox – Official GitHub repo

#23

Pretty cool that Linus Torvalds invented a completely distributed version control system and 20 years later we all use it to store our code in a single place.

Care to explain?

Linus Torvalds invented git, which is what's used by GitHub and others like gitlab.

Re: Mozilla Firefox – Official GitHub repo

#24

Pretty cool that Linus Torvalds invented a completely distributed version control system and 20 years later we all use it to store our code in a single place.

Care to explain?

If GitHub went down, how much would it impact the open source world?

Sure, there would be local copies everywhere, but for a distribution version control system, it's pretty centralized at GitHub

Re: Mozilla Firefox – Official GitHub repo

#26

Pretty cool that Linus Torvalds invented a completely distributed version control system and 20 years later we all use it to store our code in a single place.

I get what you're saying, but tbf hosting on github doesn't (yet!) box you out of just moving back to that system. It's still just git. It's still distributed, in the sense that if github goes down you could still generate patches and email them around, and then push back to github when it's back.

Everything surrounding code: issues, CICD, etc, is obviously another story. But it's not a story that is answered by distributed git either. (though I would love a good issue tracking system that is done entirely inside git)

Re: Mozilla Firefox – Official GitHub repo

#27

Pretty cool that Linus Torvalds invented a completely distributed version control system and 20 years later we all use it to store our code in a single place.

Most people have it at least in two places if they work alone and in many places if they work with others. Having a consistent central UI doesn't take away from the distributed part, while adding a bunch of goodies.

Re: Mozilla Firefox – Official GitHub repo

#28

Pretty cool that Linus Torvalds invented a completely distributed version control system and 20 years later we all use it to store our code in a single place.

To be fair, Git itself is a bit of a pain, and GitHub's main achievement is/was to make it somewhat bearable.

I regard the Git docs as being fully equal to scientific Wikipedia articles.

Everything is fully and completely explained, in terms which mean nothing.

Re: Mozilla Firefox – Official GitHub repo

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Why GitHub? If they truly cared about open-source they would've chosen something else, such as a self-hosted Forgejo [1], or its most common public instance Codeberg [2]. [1] https://forgejo.org/ [2] https://codeberg.org/

Probably only for visibility. Or MS is in the process of sponsoring them.

> MS is in the process of sponsoring them.

Think you might be on something, with the incoming end of Google cash flow, Firefox may be in discussion with bing and that could be part of the agreement, use Microsoft server.

Re: Mozilla Firefox – Official GitHub repo

#30

Pretty cool that Linus Torvalds invented a completely distributed version control system and 20 years later we all use it to store our code in a single place.

When you clone a repo you store it on your computer, too. Don’t confuse version control with CI servers/bug trackers/software forges.
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