GitHub blocks entire company because one employee was in Iran

Re:GitHub blocks entire company because one employee was in ... by owlmirror on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @08:33AM (#25645289)

Github sure contributed to the popularity, but I remeber distinctly as Git came out and how it took off like rocket. Git was a "killer app" from it's day of inception and everyone I knew switched their source control to it in late 2005 early 2006. It was a game changer to say the least. Github jumped on a already rolling bandwagon and left me ans many people I knew wondering why the hell you would need to host your projects there. (I am still a little bit puzzled but came to accept it as useful)

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Re:GitHub blocks entire company because one employee was in ... by throwaway4good on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @09:07AM (#25645611)

Github fixes the problem that most users have with git (but are ashamed / too ignorant to admit): That it is de-centralized.

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Re:GitHub blocks entire company because one employee was in ... by Pet_Ant on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @10:33AM (#25646541)

> Github fixes the problem that most users have with git (but are ashamed / too ignorant to admit): That it is de-centralized.

Git is designed for an environment where there are multiple canonical trunks. RedHats kernel is equally a master as SuSe's. So you are maintaining various tips in a semi-synchronized manner. In most projects there is a single repository branch that is the true branch (with perhaps a few tags for LTR) that represents the project. For that reason a lot of Git's mechanisms are unneeded complexity.

The killer features of Git is GitHub, and to a lesser degree local commits (after all, Mercurial has that too).

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