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Another case where the terms "Git" and "GitHub" are wrongly being used interchangeably.
by raimue 11y ago
Another case where the terms "Git" and "GitHub" are wrongly being used interchangeably.
- userbinator 11y agoHow about GitHub-random: replaces a random file in your repository with the version from someone else's fork of it.
- Tiksi 11y agoAnd so begins software evolution by random mutation.
- jagger27 11y agoIf you've ever seen first year compsci students try to bang out a Python assignment, this is already the case.
- Tiksi 11y agoThat's more of the primordial soup pre-evolution. Something might make it, but the chances are slim and nothing's really evolving, just kinda there. Randomly changing the file is mutating an existing codebase with predecessors that made it out of the primordial soup. I may have stretched the analogy too far now.
- PascLeRasc 11y agoIt should replace a file with another with the same name somewhere else, like some other main.py. Objective-C and Matlab people will hate each other.
- surement 11y agoProlog and Perl also.
- brudgers 11y agoThat's mutation testing. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutation_testing https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutation_testing
- crypticlizard 11y agoand yet the rationale for using Git over Github makes absolute sense, which should be obvious to anyone.