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This isn't entirely true. GitHub's wikis and the gist system are both backed by git - because it makes sense for those. It wouldn't make so much sense for issu
by BillinghamJ 8y ago
This isn't entirely true. GitHub's wikis and the gist system are both backed by git - because it makes sense for those.
It wouldn't make so much sense for issues, pull requests, etc. If they were backed that way, they'd very likely be rather slow to query (as GitHub doesn't keep the latest data in a "checked out" state).
Not to mention the fact that you can just ask them for a data export and they'll provide it all to you happily in JSON format.
This post doesn't really have much reality backing its criticisms.
- jelder 8y agoCame here to say this. That wikis and gist are backed by git is very useful. Trying to wedge issues etc into a git model would be an engineering disaster; these are clearly problems best solved with a database. There may be valid criticisms about MS GitHub, but this isn't one of them.