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Re: GitHub is down

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Jan 13, 2017, 5:55 PM UTC

abhixec wrote: post #40

mbertschler wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Instead of Gogs it is now recommended to use Gitea, since it has more activity (~400 more commits last time I checked) and is community driven: https://gitea.io/ According to their Blog: Gitea is a community fork of the popular self-hosted Git service Gogs. We’re a growing group of former Gogs users and contributors who found the single-maintainer management model of Gogs frustrating and thus decided to make an effor…

Is there any particular reason why this is recommended over Gogs?

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Re: GitHub is down

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Post by problems » Fri, Jan 13, 2017, 6:33 PM UTC

moron4hire wrote: post #37

kbutler wrote: post #21

Too bad git is a distributed version control system, so you have your repositories locally and can continue work without remote access.

The specific problem today is that I have changes on my home PC that I finished and pushed up to Github last night, but now I can't get them at work this morning, because my home PC is behind a firewall. Also, my IP address is not static, so there's no guarantee I'll even be able to find it to make it a remote.

There are a wide variety of solutions to that, they all fall under the general name of "dynamic DNS". Most DNS providers have some sort of system for updating it even. I use cloudflare and there's a wide variety of scripts that can be used to automatically update CF DNS records. There's also some purpose-built services and many home NAT routers include features for this.

Re: GitHub is down

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Post by moron4hire » Fri, Jan 13, 2017, 7:49 PM UTC

problems wrote: post #52

moron4hire wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The specific problem today is that I have changes on my home PC that I finished and pushed up to Github last night, but now I can't get them at work this morning, because my home PC is behind a firewall. Also, my IP address is not static, so there's no guarantee I'll even be able to find it to make it a remote.

There are a wide variety of solutions to that, they all fall under the general name of "dynamic DNS". Most DNS providers have some sort of system for updating it even. I use cloudflare and there's a wide variety of scripts that can be used to automatically update CF DNS records. There's also some purpose-built services and many home NAT routers include features for this.

Honestly, I'm not really sure it's worth the effort. I'd have to spend time setting it up and baby sit it all year for the one time a year I am hurt by the problem for a couple of hours. Or I could just take the office out for expensive coffee and usually Github is back up again by the time we get back.