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There's one thing that keeps stopping me from adopting the mailing list approach, in favour of GitHub Pull Requests, and that's this: If, ten seconds after I'v
by cytzol 6y ago
There's one thing that keeps stopping me from adopting the mailing list approach, in favour of GitHub Pull Requests, and that's this:
If, ten seconds after I've clicked Submit, I discover an embarrassing error in the code, or that I've accidentally committed some personal information, or I've sent the e-mail from the wrong address, or anything else I haven't thought of yet, there's nothing I can do and it's public forever.
Some would see this as an anti-feature, but I really do like using GitHub because I have the ability to go back and edit or delete my Pull Request if I spot an embarrassing mistake. I know the solution to this is "be more careful", but I still feel anxious sending e-mails to a mailing list, and calm using GitHub.
Does anyone relate?
- oweiler 6y agoMore careful is actually a stupid advice. People make mistakes, it's unavoidable. GH makes mistakes easy to correct, which is how it should be.
- u801e 6y agoThere are bots out there that scrape sensitive information from Github repositories. If you inadvertently push up a commit with a secret in it, then consider it compromised. Email is no different in that regard.