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I've found it somewhat odd how, although advocating the use of a decentralized version control system, much of the git community has ended up heavily centralize

I've found it somewhat odd how, although advocating the use of a decentralized version control system, much of the git community has ended up heavily centralized on GitHub.

jeremyjh 14y ago
It is a distributed system. You still have to have shared remotes in order to integrate branches.
- snogglethorpe 14y ago
  Yup, when github barfs, you can still happily keep on hacking. You're also not limited to one shared repo by any means, so even synchronization between multiple developers can continue when github is down. To avoid problems it's of course a good idea when one of the repos is a "master", and if using a secondary repo for synchronization when the master is down, you'll probably want to switch to unique temporary branches for the purpose.
  - jaequery 14y ago
    well, lot of open-source projects depend on github as source of their code distribution. github is like the new sourceforge these days.
  - yakiv 14y ago
    One possible backup would be Bitbucket (https://bitbucket.orghttps://bitbucket.org/ https://bitbucket.orghttps://bitbucket.org/). (I'm not affiliated Bitbucket in any way. I don't profit from them doing well, aside from them sticking around to keep providing free hosting for me.)
    - ajross 14y ago
      Another possible backup is any host on the internet. Seriously, dump it into a static file directory on any old web server or run a trivial git server. Send deltas with patch files. It's not even harder than github is, just uglier.
    - bitcartel 14y ago
      If you want to use your own servers, Atlassian (who own Bitbucket) recently released Stash, a competitor to Github Enterprise. Pricing is very good and if you have a commercial license, you also get the source code.
      - lflux 14y ago
        I've evaluated Stash a couple times, and I feel that Gitlab still has it beat.
jaequery 14y ago
perhaps there maybe a way to somehow sync-up github w/ bitbucket to act as a single master origin. so we can use either or and they'll be synchronized automatically. or some company that can just act as a mirror to github would be great.
- steevdave 14y ago
  You can set git up to push to multiple repos.
  - jayunit 14y ago
    http://stackoverflow.com/a/3195446 http://stackoverflow.com/a/3195446 - just set this up on a project the other day to have an "all" origin push to github and heroku.

I've found it somewhat odd how, although advocating the use of a decentralized version control system, much of the git community has ended up heavily centralized on GitHub.

jeremyjh 14y ago

It is a distributed system. You still have to have shared remotes in order to integrate branches.

snogglethorpe 14y ago
Yup, when github barfs, you can still happily keep on hacking. You're also not limited to one shared repo by any means, so even synchronization between multiple developers can continue when github is down. To avoid problems it's of course a good idea when one of the repos is a "master", and if using a secondary repo for synchronization when the master is down, you'll probably want to switch to unique temporary branches for the purpose.
- jaequery 14y ago
  well, lot of open-source projects depend on github as source of their code distribution. github is like the new sourceforge these days.
- yakiv 14y ago
  One possible backup would be Bitbucket (https://bitbucket.orghttps://bitbucket.org/ https://bitbucket.orghttps://bitbucket.org/). (I'm not affiliated Bitbucket in any way. I don't profit from them doing well, aside from them sticking around to keep providing free hosting for me.)
  - ajross 14y ago
    Another possible backup is any host on the internet. Seriously, dump it into a static file directory on any old web server or run a trivial git server. Send deltas with patch files. It's not even harder than github is, just uglier.
  - bitcartel 14y ago
    If you want to use your own servers, Atlassian (who own Bitbucket) recently released Stash, a competitor to Github Enterprise. Pricing is very good and if you have a commercial license, you also get the source code.
    - lflux 14y ago
      I've evaluated Stash a couple times, and I feel that Gitlab still has it beat.

jaequery 14y ago

perhaps there maybe a way to somehow sync-up github w/ bitbucket to act as a single master origin. so we can use either or and they'll be synchronized automatically. or some company that can just act as a mirror to github would be great.

steevdave 14y ago
You can set git up to push to multiple repos.
- jayunit 14y ago
  http://stackoverflow.com/a/3195446 http://stackoverflow.com/a/3195446 - just set this up on a project the other day to have an "all" origin push to github and heroku.