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Github actions needs to go away. Git, in the linux mantra, is a tool written to do one job very well. Productizing it, bolting shit onto the sides of it, and ma
by irishcoffee 7mo ago
Github actions needs to go away. Git, in the linux mantra, is a tool written to do one job very well. Productizing it, bolting shit onto the sides of it, and making it more than it should be was/is a giant mistake.
The whole "just because we could doesn't mean we should" quote applies here.
- psini 7mo agoBut GitHub actions is not Git?
- irishcoffee 7mo agoSorry yes, that was my point. GitHub turned git into some dysmorphic DVCS version of c++ on the web. Git is fine. Maybe 10% of people use plain git, it’d all wrapped in shitty web apps. Let git be git, and let ci/cd be ci/cd, the way Linux intended. However, I don’t work on web apps. Maybe it’s better for the JavaScript folks. I hope to never write a line of js in my lifetime.
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 7mo agoThe same philosophy would suggest that running some other command immediately following a particular (successful) git command is fine; it is composing relatively simple programs into a greater system. Other than the common security pitfalls of the former, said philosophy has no issue with using (for example) Jenkins instead of Actions.
- irishcoffee 7mo ago[flagged]
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 7mo agoYes.