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There was a moment where I thought GitLab was poised to start hitting critical mass and GitHub's best days were behind it, that was probably around right before
by geerlingguy 5y ago
There was a moment where I thought GitLab was poised to start hitting critical mass and GitHub's best days were behind it, that was probably around right before or after the acquisition.
Microsoft has done a great job of actually improving the product and investing in it, something that seems to not happen most of the time with giant acquisitions.
GitHub today, at least for me, is definitely improved over the GitHub five or so years ago. It does feel like some things are bloated due to a push for feature after feature, but the core features have gotten better to the point I don't care. I just wish I didn't have to spend 2 minutes turning off all the annoying features I don't care about for small projects on every new repo I create.
- dstaheli 5y ago(From a GitHub product manager) Thank you for this feedback about the pain of having to repeatedly change repo settings. It makes great sense that you'd want to repeat certain settings. Would it meet your needs if repository templates allowed you to have settings that got copied when you created a repo from the template (https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/creating-and-managing-repositories/creating-a-template-repository https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/creating-and-managin...)? I also wonder if you'd be interested in repository settings being settable in a text file. If you want to continue chatting about this it would be great if you could post it in GitHub's feedback discussions here: https://github.com/github/feedback/discussions/categories/general-feedback https://github.com/github/feedback/discussions/categories/ge.... Thanks again!
- geerlingguy 5y agoHaving some sort of repo config file (either account-wide or in the .github folder) would be very helpful.
- dstaheli 5y agoThanks for your helpful perspective, geerlingguy.