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Re: GitHub Git Operations Are Down

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It's almost as if only Git is distributed, but people sold out to Github for convenience. Too bad Git lacks a distributed bug tracker and wiki system like Fossil. Guess Github has to fail a lot more for things to change.

people could not be more clear that their preference is for reliable and easy-to-use centralized services maintained by professionals, and not decentralized systems that require a great deal of user expertise

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Re: GitHub Git Operations Are Down

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post #18

Experiencing this as well. I was a bit concerned something was wrong with my key but alas it is not my key but an outage. Developer "snow day".

Spent like 30 mins tryig to figure out why ssh auth was not working. Compared sha256 signatures, doubted my reading abilities and pulled my hair.

this coincided with an os upgrade for me.. made for a very confusing 15min until i checked gh status

Re: GitHub Git Operations Are Down

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post #17

I guess it's a good time as any to setup a backup or check out alternatives that could mirror or standalone. Gitlab, Gitea, any others worth checking out?

Gitea works for us.

I use a fork of Gitea called Forgejo. It works nicely as well.

https://forgejo.org/

Re: GitHub Git Operations Are Down

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post #19
post #13

It's almost as if only Git is distributed, but people sold out to Github for convenience. Too bad Git lacks a distributed bug tracker and wiki system like Fossil. Guess Github has to fail a lot more for things to change.

people could not be more clear that their preference is for reliable and easy-to-use centralized services maintained by professionals, and not decentralized systems that require a great deal of user expertise

Ironically github is sort of the exception that proves the rule: decentralized in the one way that really matters (decoupled development on individual systems), but centralized for easy interaction in the way the market demands.
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