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Re: GitHub: Git operation failures

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Post by ecshafer »

_jab wrote: post #44

GitHub is pretty easily the most unreliable service I've used in the past five years. Is GitLab better in this regard? At this point my trust in GitHub is essentially zero - they don't deserve my money any longer.

We self host gitlab, so its very stable. But Gitlab also kind of is enterprise software. It hits every feature checkbox, but they aren't well integrated, and they are kind of half way done. I don't think its as smooth of an experience as Github personally, or as feature rich. But Gitlab can self host your project repos, cicd, issues, wikis, etc. and it does it at least okay.

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Post by smsm42 »

projproj wrote: post #50

Obviously just speculation, but maybe don't let AI write your code... Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company’s code was written by AI https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/29/microsoft-ceo-says-up-to-3...

That sounds very bad, but I guess it depends also on which code it is. And whether Nadella actually knows what he's talking about, too.

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Post by AIorNot »

SteveNuts wrote: post #67

I have a serious question, not trying to start a flame war. A. Are these major issues with cloud/SaaS tools becoming more common, or is it just that they get a lot more coverage now? It seems like we see major issues across AWS, GCP, Azure, Github, etc. at least monthly now and I don't remember that being the case in the past. B. If it's becoming more common, what are the reasons? I can think of a few, but I don't kn…

well layoffs across tech probably havent helped

https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/12/Microsoft_Can_Now_Stop_R...

ever since Musk greenlighted firing people again.. CEOs can't wait to pull the trigger

Re: GitHub: Git operation failures

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Post by themafia »

noosphr wrote: post #59
_jab wrote: post #44

GitHub is pretty easily the most unreliable service I've used in the past five years. Is GitLab better in this regard? At this point my trust in GitHub is essentially zero - they don't deserve my money any longer.

You can make it as reliable as you want by hosting it on prem.

Flashbacks to me pushing hard for GitLab self hosting a few months ago. The rest of the team did not feel the lift was worth it.

I utterly hate being at the mercy of a third party with an after thought of a "status page" to stare at.

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Post by gertlex »

ramon156 wrote: post #115
mandus wrote: post #87

Good thing git was designed as a decentralized revision control system, so you don’t really need GitHub. It’s just a nice convenience

SSH also down

My pushing was failing for reasons I hadn't seen before. I then tried my sanity check of `ssh git@github.com` (I think I'm supposed to throw a -t flag there, but never care to), and that worked.

But yes ssh pushing was down, was my first clue.

My work laptop had just been rebooted (it froze...) and the CPU was pegged by security software doing a scan (insert :clown: emoji), so I just wandered over to HN and learned of the outage at that point :)

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Post by curioussquirrel »

chrsstrm wrote: post #41

I thought I was going crazy when I couldn't push changes but now it seems it's time to just call it for the day. Back at it tomorrow.

Same, even started adding new ssh keys to no avail... (I was getting some nondescript user error first, then unhealthy upstream)

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Post by bovermyer »

wnevets wrote: post #99
SteveNuts wrote: post #67

I have a serious question, not trying to start a flame war. A. Are these major issues with cloud/SaaS tools becoming more common, or is it just that they get a lot more coverage now? It seems like we see major issues across AWS, GCP, Azure, Github, etc. at least monthly now and I don't remember that being the case in the past. B. If it's becoming more common, what are the reasons? I can think of a few, but I don't kn…

> A. Are these major issues with cloud/SaaS tools becoming more common, or is it just that they get a lot more coverage now? It seems like we see major issues across AWS, GCP, Azure, Github, etc. at least monthly now and I don't remember that being the case in the past. FWIW Microsoft is convinced moving Github to Azure will fix these outages

Microsoft is also convinced that its works are a net benefit for humanity, so I would take that with a grain of salt.
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