GitHub Impervious to Super Missiles

Re:GitHub Impervious to Super Missiles by aiscott on Friday March 16, 2012 @01:00PM (#3714114)

It's weird how this article treats Git and Github as synonymous.

Github's rails bug really had nothing to do with Git itself.

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Re:GitHub Impervious to Super Missiles by chimeracoder on Friday March 16, 2012 @01:50PM (#3714404)

This is the biggest problem with the article - if you're using GitHub as a reason to argue that Git is bad, then you don't know enough about what Git really is to make that judgement.

The fact that Git is a DVCS has nothing to do with the fact that the Rails developers failed to fix a bug on their platform (Rails), which the service that you happen to use to host Git (GitHub) happens to use as well.

Sure, you could use this as an argument to switch to another Git hosting solution (BitBucket, self-hosted), but this could just as easily have happened with a SVN host using Rails....

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Re:GitHub Impervious to Super Missiles by aaronblohowiak on Friday March 16, 2012 @01:55PM (#3714428)

There was not a rails bug! It is that way by design. Now, it is a terrible default but it was not a bug.

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Re:GitHub Impervious to Super Missiles by mcdillon on Friday March 16, 2012 @03:13PM (#3714822)

Designed bugs are still bugs.

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Re:GitHub Impervious to Super Missiles by aaronblohowiak on Friday March 16, 2012 @05:20PM (#3715353)

No, one is naïveté and the other is ignorance. Big difference.

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Re:GitHub Impervious to Super Missiles by aiscott on Friday March 16, 2012 @05:06PM (#3715288)

It was an unintended consequence of Github's use of rails. So I think my characterization (Github's rails bug) is fair.

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