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Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

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Post by WorldMaker »

yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #155
gaigalas wrote: post #127

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If we're switching, we should probably go to fossil instead.

That actually does make sense seeing as fossil bakes in issues and wikis and all that other stuff that makes it hard to use plain git.

GitHub's wikis are just git repositories with folders full of Markdown files. That's the easiest thing to pull out of GitHub. Just git clone the wiki repo. At that point I often just use a git headless merge to merge the second repo into the main repo under a docs/wiki/ folder or similar.

As I recall, in GHE I remember finding that you could even turn off the repo's wiki at that point and then reset it to point to your docs/wiki/ folder and still have the Wiki interface but pointing it to a branch in the same repository. That was a while ago and I don't know if it is still supported in GHE. I also remember it was work managing that wiki branch because Wikis didn't directly support PR workflows if you have branch protection policies. Also from the documentation it doesn't look like it is supported in Public GitHub right now, which seems a shame to me, as someone who likes all documentation in the same repo as the source. I haven't needed Wikis in public GitHub much, so I haven't tried to do anything like point them to a main repo branch.

Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

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Post by yjftsjthsd-h »

WorldMaker wrote: post #211
yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #155

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That actually does make sense seeing as fossil bakes in issues and wikis and all that other stuff that makes it hard to use plain git.

GitHub's wikis are just git repositories with folders full of Markdown files. That's the easiest thing to pull out of GitHub. Just git clone the wiki repo. At that point I often just use a git headless merge to merge the second repo into the main repo under a docs/wiki/ folder or similar. As I recall, in GHE I remember finding that you could even turn off the repo's wiki at that point and then reset it to point to yo…

That's fair. You could also just put the wiki in a different branch if that's your style.

Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

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Post by zikohh »

throwaw12 wrote: post #207

I wonder how Gitlab slipped this obvious AI market opportunity, they had very good position in code self hosting used by so many enterprises. just add repo-level agents, org-level agents and done. they could have got 50B valuation by now

Gitlab SaaS released features at a slow cadence as end user. Great big ball of mud prob from a dev pov. As an end user it worked but never saw new features released

Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

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Post by esafak »

chris_money202 wrote: post #106
hungryhobbit wrote: post #101

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Except it promises not to crash regularly.

GitHub is crashing due to scaling pressure. Something GH is much more equipped to solve long term.

How long term are we talking here? Github was acquired in 2018...

Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

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Post by DrBenCarson »

leobg wrote: post #204
grandpajoey wrote: post #35

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Literally your source: > her stepfather used the Grok chatbot to transform a childhood photo into child sexual abuse material He could have used Stable Diffusion. Or, if this was the 90s, Photoshop. By your argument, we’d have to abolish the internet, or add nanny filters to everything. How many people on HN resent it when Claude refuses an instruction? And yet here you are, arguing against personal responsibility an…

Come on, man. Not allowing products to generate CP is too high of a bar?

By your logic cops should be focused on the junkies, forget about the cartel

Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

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leobg wrote: post #204
grandpajoey wrote: post #35

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Literally your source: > her stepfather used the Grok chatbot to transform a childhood photo into child sexual abuse material He could have used Stable Diffusion. Or, if this was the 90s, Photoshop. By your argument, we’d have to abolish the internet, or add nanny filters to everything. How many people on HN resent it when Claude refuses an instruction? And yet here you are, arguing against personal responsibility an…

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Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

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Post by DonHopkins »

jjcm wrote: post #10

I do wonder if calling this "Origin" is going to result in semantic misinterpretations by LLMs. Ie saying, > "hey can you push to origin main?" now has two separate meanings. A LLM may inadvertently push your code to a new provider without you knowing. It's walking a thin line between genius-growth-move and domain typosquatting.

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Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

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Post by arjie »

gritzko wrote: post #139
xvilka wrote: post #109

Instead of creating one more centralized alternative, it's best to invest all effort into a decentralized solution, like Radicle[1][2] or federated Forgejo[3][4]. [1] https://radicle.dev/ [2] https://radicle.network/nodes/seed.radicle.dev/rad%3Az3gqcJU... [3] https://forgejo.org/ [4] https://codeberg.org/forgejo-contrib/federation/src/branch/m...

git is such a good platform for decentralized tech. Forfeiting that advantage is just criminal. What I really want (and almost have) is a local GitHub for me and agents. With 4+ orchestrators working with a ton of subagents, things get difficult to coordinate. Several days ago, I went back to plain git and it was real slow and abrasive to work with. With some wizardry applied, I effectively have an "Excel for worktre…

I just use git with a remote and a custom CI system. The whole thing is trivial to build. All these forgejo etc are kind of over complicated software. Open Office of the modern world.
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