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Is this coming full circle: Git -> GitHub -> GitHub CLI?

by janvdberg 6y ago

DC-3 6y ago
Reminds me of React -> React Native -> React Native Web.
yakubin 6y ago
CLI or not, it's centralized/siloed all the same. I'm sticking to Git.
- londons_explore 6y ago
  It would be really nice if the other features of github could get into the decentralized model of git... I could imagine issues and PR reviews/comments all being mini-commits to some kind of parallel metadata repo under the hood for example.
  - jackac 6y ago
    There are some experimental tools for distributed code review and issues. https://github.com/google/git-appraise https://github.com/google/git-appraise https://github.com/dspinellis/git-issue https://github.com/dspinellis/git-issue Would be nice to have something more polished though.
  - viraptor 6y ago
    Have a look at fossil https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki Or maybe git-appraise https://github.com/google/git-appraise https://github.com/google/git-appraise git-bug https://github.com/MichaelMure/git-bug https://github.com/MichaelMure/git-bug And recently discussed here https://radicle.xyz/ https://radicle.xyz/
  - pferde 6y ago
    Just make ForgeFed a reality, and then it won't really matter where the project is hosted. :) https://forgefed.peers.community/ https://forgefed.peers.community/
- trilinearnz 6y ago
  Good point. It never seemed like the distributed "selling point" of Git (and Mercurial et al) really caught on. I remember trying to extoll it's virtues to our team at the time (pre-Github). No one source of truth as such, just everyone swapping changes as needed. It's kind of ironic that Git's most popular incarnation is based upon a centralised model. Is it just a case of the distributed workflow just not being that useful for most people? Beyond the obvious example of Linux kernel development, of course!
  - brundolf 6y ago
    I think in practice it's most useful as a recovery feature. I once got locked out of my Bitbucket account and had to recover a repo, which I'd been paid to develop, from Heroku of all places. I was extremely grateful at that point that all git repos are complete mirrors of each other.
    - matkoniecz 6y ago
      It is also useful that you have full access to repo when internet is unavailable.
  - int_19h 6y ago
    Distributed workflow is still plenty useful, but the master copy being hosted by GitHub doesn't really affect it all that much. The real benefit was the ability to clone a repo and just start working on it locally - with commit history, branches etc - and then tidying it up and merging it back upstream when possible and convenient. Are people forgetting what life was like back in SVN days, when not having a connection to the server meant not being able to do many operations?
runarberg 6y ago
I guess GitHub CLI is kind of porcelain for the `git format-patch` and `git am`. Although I don’t know of any git commands that will send or fetch the `.patch` files to the mailbox.
- u801e 6y ago
  git send-email and git imap-send can send to a mailbox (the latter can be used to upload files to an IMAP folder). I don't know of a command that could download patches from a mailbox (though it would be nice if git provided one that would work with IMAP and/or NNTP).
nxpnsv 6y ago
Can we expect -> GitHubCLIHub which simplifies using the CLI with a website?
- dorianmariefr 6y ago
  GitHubCLIHubCLIHub which simplifies using the GitHubCLIHub's CLI with a website

Is this coming full circle: Git -> GitHub -> GitHub CLI?

DC-3 6y ago

Reminds me of React -> React Native -> React Native Web.

yakubin 6y ago

CLI or not, it's centralized/siloed all the same. I'm sticking to Git.

londons_explore 6y ago
It would be really nice if the other features of github could get into the decentralized model of git... I could imagine issues and PR reviews/comments all being mini-commits to some kind of parallel metadata repo under the hood for example.
- jackac 6y ago
  There are some experimental tools for distributed code review and issues. https://github.com/google/git-appraise https://github.com/google/git-appraise https://github.com/dspinellis/git-issue https://github.com/dspinellis/git-issue Would be nice to have something more polished though.
- viraptor 6y ago
  Have a look at fossil https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki Or maybe git-appraise https://github.com/google/git-appraise https://github.com/google/git-appraise git-bug https://github.com/MichaelMure/git-bug https://github.com/MichaelMure/git-bug And recently discussed here https://radicle.xyz/ https://radicle.xyz/
- pferde 6y ago
  Just make ForgeFed a reality, and then it won't really matter where the project is hosted. :) https://forgefed.peers.community/ https://forgefed.peers.community/
trilinearnz 6y ago
Good point. It never seemed like the distributed "selling point" of Git (and Mercurial et al) really caught on. I remember trying to extoll it's virtues to our team at the time (pre-Github). No one source of truth as such, just everyone swapping changes as needed. It's kind of ironic that Git's most popular incarnation is based upon a centralised model. Is it just a case of the distributed workflow just not being that useful for most people? Beyond the obvious example of Linux kernel development, of course!
- brundolf 6y ago
  I think in practice it's most useful as a recovery feature. I once got locked out of my Bitbucket account and had to recover a repo, which I'd been paid to develop, from Heroku of all places. I was extremely grateful at that point that all git repos are complete mirrors of each other.
  - matkoniecz 6y ago
    It is also useful that you have full access to repo when internet is unavailable.
- int_19h 6y ago
  Distributed workflow is still plenty useful, but the master copy being hosted by GitHub doesn't really affect it all that much. The real benefit was the ability to clone a repo and just start working on it locally - with commit history, branches etc - and then tidying it up and merging it back upstream when possible and convenient. Are people forgetting what life was like back in SVN days, when not having a connection to the server meant not being able to do many operations?

runarberg 6y ago

I guess GitHub CLI is kind of porcelain for the `git format-patch` and `git am`. Although I don’t know of any git commands that will send or fetch the `.patch` files to the mailbox.

u801e 6y ago
git send-email and git imap-send can send to a mailbox (the latter can be used to upload files to an IMAP folder). I don't know of a command that could download patches from a mailbox (though it would be nice if git provided one that would work with IMAP and/or NNTP).

nxpnsv 6y ago

Can we expect -> GitHubCLIHub which simplifies using the CLI with a website?

dorianmariefr 6y ago
GitHubCLIHubCLIHub which simplifies using the GitHubCLIHub's CLI with a website