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Git is not the same thing as github. It's designed to be decentralized, even if it isn't getting used that way atm
I am quite familiar with the basic functionality of Git. However, I am always amused by how it works in practice.
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#212A reminder of how centralized and dependent the whole industry has become on GH, which is ironic, considering that git itself is designed to be decentralized. Good opportunity to think about mirroring your repos somewhere else like Gitea or Gitlab.
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#216Yep, angry unicorn. If the copilot debacle wasn't reason enough to make people migrate or diversify the code repo efforts with, let's say, GitLab, this should.
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They're already mirrored on my hard drive. That's how git works.
Github is more than a remote host for git repositories. It's become one of the major CDNs for software distributions. Github Pages host a majority of static sites that developer use. You won't be able to use Cargo, Nix, Scoop and other package managers right now because their registries have a critical dependency hosted on Github. This is not to mention all the projects that rely on Github for project management, dev…
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This is at least a multi-million dollar payout (if they admit to it). All GitHub Pages say > We're having a really bad day. > The Unicorns have taken over. We're doing our best to get them under control and get GitHub back up and running.
Seems slightly unproffesional for a massive company like Github/Microsoft.
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#219I am happy that my project is pushed also to codeberg.
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#220Senior: Ah found it! Let's just rollback one revision on the db. Newguy: let me fix this! `kubectl rollout undo ... --to-revision=1` Newguy: Ok, Started rollback to revision one! Senior: Uh-oh..