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You make a good point, I'm surprised to see it downvoted. It's always a risk to put IP in a bucket you may lose access to just because of politics.

rubatuga 6y ago
Git is a distributed system, so even if you lose access there isn't a huge data loss.
- boogies 6y ago
  That’s true if you use it the way its creator does, but not so much when you replace git send-mail with GitHub’s proprietary extensions (issues, etc).
- prepperdev 6y ago
  Yes, making daily on-premise backups would mitigate the risk of losing source code. That applies to everyone, not just Iranian developers: setup daily backups of all your code.
  - Grimm1 6y ago
    Even more than that, as long as one person has the repo cloned you can bootstrap the entire project again, any single clone has the entire project history to the most recent point it was fetched. Git is neat that way.
    - prepperdev 6y ago
      That's not necessarily true. If your organization has tens of repositories with multiple important branches in each, all odds that at least some of those branches are lost. Proper backups of all repos are an answer, of course.
      - throwaway894345 6y ago
        The way we use git, master has everything that is production with short-lived feature branches for development work. Not needing to worry about git backups is perhaps the least of the benefits of this approach (and no real drawbacks as far as I can tell).
- toper-centage 6y ago
  Unfortunately, github is 50% git, 50% proprietary code that you don't control and can't neatly export your data for other platforms. All these git hosts are walled Gardens. It's a sad state of affairs but not really limited to git (Gmail walled Garden despite email standard, messaging apps, etc).
  - grumple 6y ago
    Github has some great management tools for reviewing code and integrating with various integrations. But so does Gitlab, Bitbucket... and I'm sure there are more. They aren't 1 for 1 replacements, but they do exist. I'd personally recommend against using a ton of integrations that tightly bound you to any service.
    - toper-centage 6y ago
      Yes, they all have great tools on top of git, but they are all different and hard to transfer between platforms.

rubatuga 6y ago

Git is a distributed system, so even if you lose access there isn't a huge data loss.

boogies 6y ago
That’s true if you use it the way its creator does, but not so much when you replace git send-mail with GitHub’s proprietary extensions (issues, etc).
prepperdev 6y ago
Yes, making daily on-premise backups would mitigate the risk of losing source code. That applies to everyone, not just Iranian developers: setup daily backups of all your code.
- Grimm1 6y ago
  Even more than that, as long as one person has the repo cloned you can bootstrap the entire project again, any single clone has the entire project history to the most recent point it was fetched. Git is neat that way.
  - prepperdev 6y ago
    That's not necessarily true. If your organization has tens of repositories with multiple important branches in each, all odds that at least some of those branches are lost. Proper backups of all repos are an answer, of course.
    - throwaway894345 6y ago
      The way we use git, master has everything that is production with short-lived feature branches for development work. Not needing to worry about git backups is perhaps the least of the benefits of this approach (and no real drawbacks as far as I can tell).
toper-centage 6y ago
Unfortunately, github is 50% git, 50% proprietary code that you don't control and can't neatly export your data for other platforms. All these git hosts are walled Gardens. It's a sad state of affairs but not really limited to git (Gmail walled Garden despite email standard, messaging apps, etc).
- grumple 6y ago
  Github has some great management tools for reviewing code and integrating with various integrations. But so does Gitlab, Bitbucket... and I'm sure there are more. They aren't 1 for 1 replacements, but they do exist. I'd personally recommend against using a ton of integrations that tightly bound you to any service.
  - toper-centage 6y ago
    Yes, they all have great tools on top of git, but they are all different and hard to transfer between platforms.