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Re: Incident with GitHub Actions, API requests, Codespaces, Git operations, Issues

#41
post #20

These incidents have to hurt Azure's brand value. It's a monster task to run something as big as GitHub, if they ever get it stable it will lend a lot of credibility to Microsoft's cloud skills.

GitHub is pretty stable. What are you talking about? I doubt most GitHub users know it's on Azure.

Re: Incident with GitHub Actions, API requests, Codespaces, Git operations, Issues

#42
post #20

These incidents have to hurt Azure's brand value. It's a monster task to run something as big as GitHub, if they ever get it stable it will lend a lot of credibility to Microsoft's cloud skills.

There's not really all that much pointing to an infrastructure level failure - it's possible, but it's just as likely it's an application-level failure somewhere in Github's code. The API is returning 500s and not 503s and the failure is relatively quick, so it's not obviously a server outage.

Re: Incident with GitHub Actions, API requests, Codespaces, Git operations, Issues

#43
post #28

It's intermittent, I was able to get a push through eventually, and am now hung trying to convert a draft PR to ready for review. It took many tries to get to draft. I'm probably not helping by repeatedly trying, but I don't want to forget this PR. Yay it finally went through.

I'm able to occasionally push commits, but PRs aren't picking up the update or rerunning CI

Re: Incident with GitHub Actions, API requests, Codespaces, Git operations, Issues

#44
post #35

I'm finding that pushes do go through eventually, this is probably grossly irresponsible, so I don't recommend its use, but I remembered I had this old alias to "push harder" in my ~/.gitconfig: [alias] thrust = "!f() { until git push $@; do sleep 0.5; done; }; f" I've done a few pushes so far, and found that it's going through in <10 tries or so.

It's fine. Maybe it will force them to finally start paying attention to the quality of their work. If crap I'm writing for a living was misbehaving that frequently, I'd be sweeping the streets by now (or doing some other work that's actually useful to society).

Re: Incident with GitHub Actions, API requests, Codespaces, Git operations, Issues

#46

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It's been like that for at least 6 hours, randomly appearing. I would take a pause and try again and then it would work, but now it's definitely much more persistent. Guess it's time to go play some video games.... https://xkcd.com/303/

Here you go: $ while ! git push my; do sleep 1; done Works for me eventually, although commits do not appear in web interface (they do in the actual repository).

Thanks but no thanks - no way am I doing anything to my core app repos when the repo host is fritzing out. This is one of those moments to go for a walk (or bed, depending on your timezone).

Re: Incident with GitHub Actions, API requests, Codespaces, Git operations, Issues

#49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's been like that for at least 6 hours, randomly appearing. I would take a pause and try again and then it would work, but now it's definitely much more persistent. Guess it's time to go play some video games.... https://xkcd.com/303/

Here you go: $ while ! git push my; do sleep 1; done Works for me eventually, although commits do not appear in web interface (they do in the actual repository).

-f does not sound like a good idea to me in a script like that.

Re: Incident with GitHub Actions, API requests, Codespaces, Git operations, Issues

#50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Here you go: $ while ! git push my; do sleep 1; done Works for me eventually, although commits do not appear in web interface (they do in the actual repository).

-f does not sound like a good idea to me in a script like that.

Good point. I just copy-pasted it from the terminal, as it made sense in my particular situation. I'll remove it.
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