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Others mentioned Github competitors, but I think it could be anyone's competitors. I.e. Your competitor knows you're using github to handle your continuous depl

by d0m 13y ago

Others mentioned Github competitors, but I think it could be anyone's competitors. I.e. Your competitor knows you're using github to handle your continuous deployment (or whatever reasons), by bringing github down, they bring you're whole development environment down. That's just a (dumb) hypothesis. The cost of doing so is probably not worth it.

luch 13y ago
Isn't the whole point of distributed VCS like git not to rely on a unique root ? I don't use Git at work (SourceSafe ftw), but if I had to, I would use Github as a long-term backup storage, not as the nexus point of my dev env.
- tbrownaw 13y ago
  Yes, and not exactly. Git is federated, as in Jabber. A branch has a place where it lives. If you do something with a particular branch, you need access to the place where it lives but not to anywhere else. Monotone is distributed, as in Usenet. A branch may only exist on certain servers, but it is not logically tied to any one server (or set of servers). There is a global namespace for branches. I think other systems (hg) tend to be more like the Git model, because permissions handling is far simpler.
- fat0wl 13y ago
  yup i kindof had this same realization as well once cuz i didn't want to sign up for private repos after i'd left the company that paid github subscription... hard to recreate the logic tho O.o but it was something in the vein of "if i learn to set up git correctly, i shouldnt need a unique root, so what is it then.... a backup with vizualization? I dont need that for a private repo i can use offline tools"
  - d0m 13y ago
    If you value your time, you'll realize github is very cheap. I also particularly like how everyone knows it so adding new contributors is painless.
    - fat0wl 13y ago
      yea no argument there i just only have 1 or 2 clients a year who do closed-source git so $100 seems like a lot given that i am usually the sole dev
- rev087 13y ago
  The problem is that github itself agregates value. Issues, Gist, not to mention that various package management systems use github as the repository.

by d0m 13y ago

luch 13y ago

Isn't the whole point of distributed VCS like git not to rely on a unique root ? I don't use Git at work (SourceSafe ftw), but if I had to, I would use Github as a long-term backup storage, not as the nexus point of my dev env.

tbrownaw 13y ago
Yes, and not exactly. Git is federated, as in Jabber. A branch has a place where it lives. If you do something with a particular branch, you need access to the place where it lives but not to anywhere else. Monotone is distributed, as in Usenet. A branch may only exist on certain servers, but it is not logically tied to any one server (or set of servers). There is a global namespace for branches. I think other systems (hg) tend to be more like the Git model, because permissions handling is far simpler.
fat0wl 13y ago
yup i kindof had this same realization as well once cuz i didn't want to sign up for private repos after i'd left the company that paid github subscription... hard to recreate the logic tho O.o but it was something in the vein of "if i learn to set up git correctly, i shouldnt need a unique root, so what is it then.... a backup with vizualization? I dont need that for a private repo i can use offline tools"
- d0m 13y ago
  If you value your time, you'll realize github is very cheap. I also particularly like how everyone knows it so adding new contributors is painless.
  - fat0wl 13y ago
    yea no argument there i just only have 1 or 2 clients a year who do closed-source git so $100 seems like a lot given that i am usually the sole dev
rev087 13y ago
The problem is that github itself agregates value. Issues, Gist, not to mention that various package management systems use github as the repository.