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Post by renata » Thu, Mar 17, 2022, 3:25 PM UTC

TimWolla wrote: post #49

5e92cb50239222b wrote: post #38

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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.

Post by BukhariH » Thu, Mar 17, 2022, 3:26 PM UTC

ctvo wrote: post #58

5e92cb50239222b wrote: post #44

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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).

It's OK to be frustrated since we rely on GitHub so much, but this is unkind. Software is complex. GitHub operates at a scale few of us work at. There are people at the other end doing their best traversing complex internal systems (organization and tech). I would argue GitHub has done more for societal good than most tech ventures, by the way.

Post by pythux » Thu, Mar 17, 2022, 3:29 PM UTC

everfrustrated wrote: post #34

Does anybody else remember when GitHub's outage page used to have little graphs showing downtime? Eventually they took it down as their outages were just too often. GitHub has _always_ had terrible uptime. It's a great product - wish something would change but it seems cultural at this point.

Post by svnpenn » Thu, Mar 17, 2022, 3:30 PM UTC

avar wrote: 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.

Post by ilkkal » Thu, Mar 17, 2022, 3:34 PM UTC

BukhariH wrote: post #63

ctvo wrote: post #58

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It's OK to be frustrated since we rely on GitHub so much, but this is unkind. Software is complex. GitHub operates at a scale few of us work at. There are people at the other end doing their best traversing complex internal systems (organization and tech). I would argue GitHub has done more for societal good than most tech ventures, by the way.

People tend not to be very kind when any product they pay for goes down. At the end of the day - our companies also have people that rely on our software working in order to do a lot of societal good.