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Re:GitHub Outage by Analemma_ on Wednesday January 27, 2016 @07:52PM (#10985043)
sigh Many moons ago when I was a starry-eyed lad just learning to use Git, I remember all the cheerful sentences in the Git book like "Unlike SVN, with Git you can work even when the server is down!"

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

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Re:GitHub Outage by qwyxzy on Wednesday January 27, 2016 @08:03PM (#10985131)
Well… you can still work with Git when the server is down. Just not GitHub.
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Re:GitHub Outage by traviswebb on Wednesday January 27, 2016 @08:13PM (#10985225)
That was never the main design consideration of Git, but you nonetheless can make commits and branches when the server is down. Go try it.
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Re:GitHub Outage by sergiotapia on Wednesday January 27, 2016 @08:31PM (#10985329)
Git is not Github. If hotmail.com goes down, it doesn't take down email worldwide with it.
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Re:GitHub Outage by edem on Wednesday January 27, 2016 @09:09PM (#10985577)
You can continue to work. For example I skipped pushing to Github but I can push to Heroku. No problem. I'll push my code when it is up again.
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Re:GitHub Outage by ld00d on Wednesday January 27, 2016 @08:22PM (#10985286)
git != github. If you're worried, you can always push to another remote in the meantime. Does svn do that?
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Re:GitHub Outage by GhotiFish on Wednesday January 27, 2016 @07:56PM (#10985079)
I see you got your centralization in my decentralized protocol.
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Re:GitHub Outage by AndyKelley on Wednesday January 27, 2016 @08:10PM (#10985199)
I'm still working over here. I mean I took a quick break to read HN. But no productivity problems. Why can't you keep working?
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