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> I don't think it is hate, more that people have learned to not put all their eggs in the same basket. But git isn't putting all your eggs in one basket. It's
by BinaryIdiot 9y ago
> I don't think it is hate, more that people have learned to not put all their eggs in the same basket.
But git isn't putting all your eggs in one basket. It's a distributed version control system. GitHub is one way to access your source but it doesn't have to be the only one. That's purely a choice made by folks.
If you want to put your eggs into many baskets then great! But that doesn't prevent you from using GitHub at all.
- qb45 9y agoFor a dumb git host GH is passable, the problem is with their additional features which many projects use. If/when GH goes the way of the dodo they will be at the mercy of 3rd parties' ability to scrap and import this stuff.
- johannes1234321 9y ago> If you want to put your eggs into many baskets then great! But that doesn't prevent you from using GitHub at all. In theory, yes. In practice you quickly end up having long discussions in "pull requests" and therelike and all references using github.com URLs. If (let's hope that doesn't happen) Github one day does what Sourceforge did and injects ads and malware you're in trouble as everybody still points to their domain.
- bzbarsky 9y agoYes, if you use Github but don't use PRs you're not putting all your eggs in one basket. As soon as you start using PRs, you almost certainly have part of your project's version control history (the reasons for changes) in the PR discussions, and now if Github ever shuts down you have dataloss.