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Whenever I get mad at GitHub Actions, I refer to it by it's true name: VisualSourceSafe Actions. Because that's what it is, and it shows. If you check out their
by GauntletWizard 2y ago
Whenever I get mad at GitHub Actions, I refer to it by it's true name: VisualSourceSafe Actions. Because that's what it is, and it shows. If you check out their Action Runner's source code[1], you'll find the VSS prefix all over, showing it's lineage.
[1] https://github.com/actions/runner/blob/6654f6b3ded8463331fb0c96a73b0435775c7c4e/src/Sdk/Common/Common/VssException.cs#L14 https://github.com/actions/runner/blob/6654f6b3ded8463331fb0...
- rurban 2y agoOh, C#. Nice!
- hinkley 2y agoI know they've fixed VSS ages ago, but for many years it was buggy af and would catastrophically lose data on automerges that it confidently made and was wrong. I had a coworker who called it Visual Sorta-Safe which is just about the best parody name I've ever heard in my entire career.
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