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I've got about 3 different checkouts of my code on my laptop right now, and each of my coworkers has at least one...
Again, how does that get to the build box? I also have several local copies of my code on my computer, but that doesn't help the Jenkins machine get it unless I scp (or whatever) it over.
I read about Github being down and know that it sucks for many people. What I find interesting is thinking about how quickly so many installations of distributed version control adopted a de facto central server. Github is a platform that should not need a particularly high uptime from the point of view of any one user. But of course it does because so much of its utility is that it substitutes for a lower level part…
> Github is a platform that should not need a particularly high uptime from the point of view of any one user. This is totally false. GitHub doesn't just provide a git server, it also provides ticketing and project management. When GitHub is down, projects that rely heavily on, for example, commenting on issues grind to a halt. Yes, you don't need GitHub to be up 99.999% of the time to do a `git push` every once in a…
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> Github is a platform that should not need a particularly high uptime from the point of view of any one user. This is totally false. GitHub doesn't just provide a git server, it also provides ticketing and project management. When GitHub is down, projects that rely heavily on, for example, commenting on issues grind to a halt. Yes, you don't need GitHub to be up 99.999% of the time to do a `git push` every once in a…
Agreed with you. There are gists which people curl or wget from the servers. Github is not exactly like source forge or something like that....
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Do you have any support for those assertions? In particular, the backup claim is rather dubious unless you're redefining “backup” to be a much higher bar than most common answers meet.
Git is a distributed revision control system and designed as such. The fact it can be used as a back-up tool doesn't mean it should be used as a back-up tool, especially when there are back-up solutions designed from the ground to do just that.
Assuming that we're talking about things which are already stored in Git and not e.g. an HD video collection, what would make your original statement true?