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Re:Tencent WeChat is now a GitHub secret scanning partner by lopkeny12ko on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @09:08AM (#34066061)
Just a reminder that Git is a decentralized protocol and Github is merely a (poor) implementation of it. Microsoft-Github have been increasingly introducing antifeatures, just one of which is sending repository contents to China automatically.

For the last few years I've been running Git off my own servers with a cgit [0] frontend, and couldn't be happier.

[0] https://git.zx2c4.com/cgit/about/

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Re:Tencent WeChat is now a GitHub secret scanning partner by bswinnerton on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @09:16AM (#34066190)
Repository contents aren’t “sent” to China, companies like Tencent specify the shape of tokens to GitHub and GitHub does the scanning and then notifies Tencent to revoke the token if one is found.
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Re:Tencent WeChat is now a GitHub secret scanning partner by Alifatisk on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @09:27AM (#34066323)
How is Githun a poor implementation of Git? Because it’s centralized?
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Re:Tencent WeChat is now a GitHub secret scanning partner by boomboomsubban on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @09:44AM (#34066559)
I believe it's roughly a quote from Linus Torvalds, the creator of git who has many issues with githubs decisions. See https://www.wired.com/2012/05/torvalds-github/ for a start, his opinion hasn't improved over the decade.
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Re:Tencent WeChat is now a GitHub secret scanning partner by rightbyte on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @10:42AM (#34067416)
His oppositions seems to be nitpicking and he says it is fine for hosting?
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Re:Tencent WeChat is now a GitHub secret scanning partner by boomboomsubban on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @11:29AM (#34068176)
The issues with the way they handle commits is a fairly fundamental disagreement, one that ensures he will never use github for development without it being changed.
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Re:Tencent WeChat is now a GitHub secret scanning partner by rightbyte on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @01:25PM (#34070014)
Ye well he says the web interface sucks and that "pull request" do too. Like, all their value add.

I have never tried Github's web interface but I guess not being able to write tab is the first thing that pissed Linus off.

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