Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by rwoll on Sunday June 03, 2018 @11:57PM (#17224486)

    Anyway, my point is that centralisation isn't bad if it's painless to decentralise again.

I'd love to see GitHub (and GitLab) offer a custom domain name option which would proxy HTTPS and SSH clones via a company's custom domain (e.g. code.example.com) to GitHub's hosting. That way, if a company needs to move away from GitHub (or GitHub goes away), developer's references to some company's code is not stuck pointing to some stale github.com domain.

Hosting such a proxy (and the repos) takes infrastructure, time, and experience to secure and make available, so from a user's perspective it's great if a company does this as a service as long as you provide the domain.

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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by voltagex_ on Monday June 04, 2018 @12:35AM (#17224684)

Has there ever been a plan for Git to support looking up SRV records? This would solve your problem without proxies.

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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by rwoll on Monday June 04, 2018 @10:25AM (#17228018)

Good point. I'll have to look through some git docs/source and forums to see if it's been discussed.

I do quite like the idea of using DNS instead of standing up proxies.

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