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Re: GitHub Copilot App

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Post by mohamedkoubaa »

roetlich wrote: post #2

Who would have thought that git worktree is the technology of the year 2026?

I set up multiple work trees in one vscode workspace last year and wrote in the agents.md how to merge branches - but I spend about a third of the time helping agents integrate and merge. I remember wishing the tooling would catch up

Re: GitHub Copilot App

#52

Post by free652 »

junto wrote: post #46

As a side note, has anyone else noticed that GitHub have leaked what looks like a sequential customer number on their Billing - Usage page? Go here and you’ll be redirected with a query string including a customer parameter. That looks like trouble. https://github.com/settings/billing/usage

That information is public https://api.github.com/users/

Re: GitHub Copilot App

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Post by baq »

roetlich wrote: post #2

Who would have thought that git worktree is the technology of the year 2026?

How small are people’s projects if they find worktrees useful? I use them for hobby stuff, but $DAYJOB is a different story because of testing

Re: GitHub Copilot App

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Post by _fat_santa »

baq wrote: post #54
roetlich wrote: post #2

Who would have thought that git worktree is the technology of the year 2026?

How small are people’s projects if they find worktrees useful? I use them for hobby stuff, but $DAYJOB is a different story because of testing

I've toyed around with worktrees but haven't found them very useful beyond that. I generally find it much easier to carefully prompt an agent so $TASK1 does not interfere with $TASK2

Re: GitHub Copilot App

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Post by jaredcwhite »

It's weird. I still remember 2008, when GitHub's claim to fame was that it was "the easiest (and prettiest) way to participate in the collaborative development of software."

Now they want to end that collaboration, and turn it into automation. Many C-suite executives right now are smiling bigly. Meanwhile, we're leading the exodus. Turns out, we still want the easiest and prettiest way to participate in the collaborative development of software, and GitHub ain't it!

Re: GitHub Copilot App

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Post by aranelsurion »

free652 wrote: post #52
junto wrote: post #46

As a side note, has anyone else noticed that GitHub have leaked what looks like a sequential customer number on their Billing - Usage page? Go here and you’ll be redirected with a query string including a customer parameter. That looks like trouble. https://github.com/settings/billing/usage

That information is public https://api.github.com/users/

That's not the same number, at least not on my user.

Re: GitHub Copilot App

#58

Post by thatxliner »

mrklol wrote: post #19
roetlich wrote: post #2

Who would have thought that git worktree is the technology of the year 2026?

And the team behind opencode is working on an alternative https://github.com/anomalyco/rift

this looks similar to something I built https://github.com/ThatXliner/git-worm

Re: GitHub Copilot App

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Post by _pdp_ »

It is nice.

But!

The reason these tools exist is not because of non-professional developers, but quite the opposite.

A lot more professionals are now working on more projects simultaneously- something that was not practical just a year ago.

Though, while this is nice, considering that all of the action is happening on the same device, I am worried this is going to increase supply chain risks. Before, a developer would work on clearly designated projects for practical reasons. Now, the same developer can work across many projects that are quite different - for example, the marketing site and the backend - and because of an obscure and unimportant component on the marketing site, there can be an impact on backend systems.

I wrote more about this here: https://chatbotkit.com/reflections/everyone-is-a-vip-now

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