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Re: Mozilla Firefox – Official GitHub repo

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Post by torben-friis »

mhh__ wrote: post #53
IshKebab wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Plenty of people use Codeberg and Gitlab. And it's still distributed - I don't need to lock files and ask coworkers if I can work on them. Maybe if Git had native support for PRs and issues this wouldn't have happened. (And yes I'm aware of git send-email etc.)

Git should have issue support or something like it as a convention but pull requests are an abomination that we are stuck with. No thank you.

Can you expand on that? I’m probably younger but I can’t imagine a more comfortable way to review code.

Re: Mozilla Firefox – Official GitHub repo

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Post by spookie »

mmis1000 wrote: post #43
IshKebab wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Plenty of people use Codeberg and Gitlab. And it's still distributed - I don't need to lock files and ask coworkers if I can work on them. Maybe if Git had native support for PRs and issues this wouldn't have happened. (And yes I'm aware of git send-email etc.)

I think it would be great if git have some kind of soft lock by default (like attach a text on some file without make it into actual commit). It could probably make peoples' live easier when you and teamates need to communicate what files you are changing thus reduce the chance of conflict.

Yeah, especially binaries.

Re: Mozilla Firefox – Official GitHub repo

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Post by qwertox »

IshKebab wrote: post #19
bandrami wrote: post #12

Pretty cool that Linus Torvalds invented a completely distributed version control system and 20 years later we all use it to store our code in a single place.

Plenty of people use Codeberg and Gitlab. And it's still distributed - I don't need to lock files and ask coworkers if I can work on them. Maybe if Git had native support for PRs and issues this wouldn't have happened. (And yes I'm aware of git send-email etc.)

In Codeberg, how does one even search for files containing a given string? Probably the #1 thing I do on GitHub is searching for files in a project containing a given string.

Re: Mozilla Firefox – Official GitHub repo

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Post by account-5 »

SCdF wrote: post #26
bandrami wrote: post #12

Pretty cool that Linus Torvalds invented a completely distributed version control system and 20 years later we all use it to store our code in a single place.

I get what you're saying, but tbf hosting on github doesn't (yet!) box you out of just moving back to that system. It's still just git. It's still distributed, in the sense that if github goes down you could still generate patches and email them around, and then push back to github when it's back. Everything surrounding code: issues, CICD, etc, is obviously another story. But it's not a story that is answered by dist…

This is why I like fossil, it comes with most of the stuff I use built in, and you can deploy it as a website too. Use it for all of my personal projects and used it extensively for coursework at university.

Re: Mozilla Firefox – Official GitHub repo

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Post by calcifer »

rrr_oh_man wrote: post #51
dtech wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you had checked you would've seen issues are not enabled. I assume they still use their Bugzilla

> If you had checked you would've seen issues are not enabled That was the point of the (obviously ill-received) joke.

Ill-received or poorly stated? Try as I might, I can't find a joke in your comment.

Re: Mozilla Firefox – Official GitHub repo

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Post by Barrin92 »

bandrami wrote: post #12

Pretty cool that Linus Torvalds invented a completely distributed version control system and 20 years later we all use it to store our code in a single place.

It's no more surprising than the fact that we invented distributed protocols to talk online and yet people use gmail or Facebook rather than sending data over the wire themselves.

People who are very insistent on distributed solutions never seem to understand that the economic, social and organizational reasons for division of labor, hierarchy and centralization didn't suddenly go away.

Re: Mozilla Firefox – Official GitHub repo

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Post by captn3m0 »

mhh__ wrote: post #53
IshKebab wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Plenty of people use Codeberg and Gitlab. And it's still distributed - I don't need to lock files and ask coworkers if I can work on them. Maybe if Git had native support for PRs and issues this wouldn't have happened. (And yes I'm aware of git send-email etc.)

Git should have issue support or something like it as a convention but pull requests are an abomination that we are stuck with. No thank you.

Not Git, but several forges are working towards an ActivityOub based federation format for these: https://f3.forgefriends.org/

Re: Mozilla Firefox – Official GitHub repo

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Post by captn3m0 »

sofixa wrote: post #36
mlenz wrote: post #2

Great to see, but I wonder what lead to the decision of creating a new org instead of using github.com/mozilla

GitHub are terrible at this, because you can't have levels other than Org and Repository. And many things (SSO, visibility rules, common configs) are on the org level. Unfortunately often the cleaner option is to create a separate org, which is a pain to use (e.g. you log in to each separately, even if they share the same SSO, PATs have to be authorised on each one separately, etc). In Gitlab, you would have had one…

There is an “Enterprise” level above the org, but that obviously needs an Enterprise account. It lets you manage some policies across multiple orgs, including membership.

Re: Mozilla Firefox – Official GitHub repo

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Post by frizlab »

SCdF wrote: post #26
bandrami wrote: post #12

Pretty cool that Linus Torvalds invented a completely distributed version control system and 20 years later we all use it to store our code in a single place.

I get what you're saying, but tbf hosting on github doesn't (yet!) box you out of just moving back to that system. It's still just git. It's still distributed, in the sense that if github goes down you could still generate patches and email them around, and then push back to github when it's back. Everything surrounding code: issues, CICD, etc, is obviously another story. But it's not a story that is answered by dist…

Like fossil?
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