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Re: Mozilla Firefox – Official GitHub repo

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Post by bitwize »

vintermann wrote: post #54
snickerbockers wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

ironically hardly anybody outside of the linux kernel community uses it the way it was intended lol. Didn't all this start with Linus getting into a spat with the bitkeeper dev involving some sort of punitive measure as a response to somebody making a reverse-engineered FOSS client? I don't remember the details and I'm sure I have at least half of them wrong, but that's easily one of the most disastrous decisions in…

> Didn't all this start with Linus getting into a spat with the bitkeeper dev It's a joke that the bitkeeper dev has two revision control named after him, Mercurial and Git.

I've heard the one that says much like Linux, Git is named after Linus himself.

Re: Mozilla Firefox – Official GitHub repo

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Post by spookie »

globular-toast wrote: post #58
lmm wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Turns out the important part wasn't the distributed-ness at all (unless you count being able to work offline). Many such cases.

Oh it is, but I think people forget what the distributed model gets you. It isn't just about having a completely decentralised workflow. When you clone a repo you have everything you need to keep working on that project. You have your own copy of all the branches which you are free to do whatever you want with. This is what makes it fast. Every clone has a brand new master branch and you never needed to ask anyone or…

Yup. It's an extremely powerful workflow, you won't fear trying new ideas, you aren't fully commited to them (hehe).

Re: Mozilla Firefox – Official GitHub repo

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Post by baq »

spookie wrote: post #71
ratatoskrt wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To be fair, Git itself is a bit of a pain, and GitHub's main achievement is/was to make it somewhat bearable.

To be fair, most of the its difficulty is realized when you're stuck with a teammate rewriting history. Who, much like anyone anyone doing the same, hasn't bothered reading a book explaining things.

If you don't rewrite history in git, I don't want to bisect in your repos.

If you push rewritten history to master, you're a git.

Conclusion: learn your tools.

Re: Mozilla Firefox – Official GitHub repo

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Post by antalis »

Firefox Mobile (Fenix) had just moved to Mozilla's Mercurial mozilla-central repository after using GitHub including for issues. https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-android/wiki#upcom...

Now, both the desktop and the mobile version will be on Github, and the "issues" will stay on Bugzilla.

This will take advantage of both GitHub's good search and source browsing and Git's familiar system.

As a former Firefox and Thunderbird contributor, I have to say that I used local search instead of trying to find something on the mozilla-central website.

Of course, when you're actively developing software, you search inside your IDE, but allowing to find things easily on the website makes it more welcoming for potential new contributors.

Re: Mozilla Firefox – Official GitHub repo

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Post by masfoobar »

sorbusherra wrote: post #31
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.

which is also owned by microsoft, that uses github data to train large language model. So, after decades of trying to kill linux and sabotage it, they finally figured out how to own it.

As a Free software supporter, its just a matter of time before we lose out on our freedoms. Honestly, once Linus retires I do think Linux will continue to thrive with a good team but Linux, the kernel, will either have to adapt to current times (whatever that can be in the future) or something else will replace it and, likely, some AI aspect on top.

It wont be free software and, likely, it will be Microsoft.

Re: Mozilla Firefox – Official GitHub repo

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Post by dijit »

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…

> Everything surrounding code: issues, CICD, etc, is obviously another story. But it's not a story that is answered by distributed git either. (though I would love a good issue tracking system that is done entirely inside git)

Embrace, Extend..

(largely this is unfair, as plain git leaves much to be desired- but you can’t deny that the things surrounding git on github are very sticky).

Re: Mozilla Firefox – Official GitHub repo

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Post by rablackburn »

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…

>> I would love a good issue tracking system that is done entirely inside git

You might like git-bug:

https://github.com/git-bug/git-bug

Re: Mozilla Firefox – Official GitHub repo

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Post by midnightclubbed »

snickerbockers wrote: post #33
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.

ironically hardly anybody outside of the linux kernel community uses it the way it was intended lol. Didn't all this start with Linus getting into a spat with the bitkeeper dev involving some sort of punitive measure as a response to somebody making a reverse-engineered FOSS client? I don't remember the details and I'm sure I have at least half of them wrong, but that's easily one of the most disastrous decisions in…

EA not making sports games for Dreamcast wasn’t a bad decision for EA. It cost Sega a huge amount of money to produce and license their own sports games exclusively for Dreamcast, not having EA sports was a huge blow.

And while NBA 2k destroyed NBA Live it took until 2009 for that to start happening (long after Sega ownership), mainly down to sliding standards in EA’s NBA Live titles and eventually some disastrous EA launches.

Re: Mozilla Firefox – Official GitHub repo

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Post by dijit »

ahoka wrote: post #94
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.

Git wouldn't be mainstream without GitHub though.

It might feel like that now, but in 2011 github was just one of a bunch of code forges and at the time they were all similar in quality.

Gitorious was chosen for the meego/maemo team for example.

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