Package managers keep using Git as a database, it never works out

Re:Package managers keep using Git as a database, it never w... by dahart on Friday December 26, 2025 @11:09AM (#46393375)

Why do you blame MS for predictably doing what MS does, and not the people who sold that trust & FOSS infra to MS for a profit? Your blame seems misplaced.

And out of curiosity, aside from costing more for some people, what’s worse exactly? I’m not a heavy GitHub user, but I haven’t really noticed anything in the core functionality that would justify calling it enshittified.

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Re:Package managers keep using Git as a database, it never w... by mastax on Friday December 26, 2025 @01:19PM (#46394642)

Plenty of blame to go around.

Probably the worst thing MS did was kill GitHub’s nascent CI project and replace it with Azure DevOps. Though to be fair the fundamental flaws with that approach didn’t really become apparent for a few years. And GitHub’s feature development pace was far too slow compared to its competitors at the time. Of course GitHub used to be a lot more reliable…

Now they’re cramming in half baked AI stuff everywhere but that’s hardly a MS specific sin.

MS GitHub has been worse about DMCA and sanctioned country related takedowns than I remember pre acquisition GitHub being.

Did I miss anything?

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Re:Package managers keep using Git as a database, it never w... by Y_Y on Friday December 26, 2025 @01:22PM (#46394676)

I don't blame them uniquely. I think it's a travesty the original GitHub sold out, but it's just as predictable. Giant corps will evilly make the line go up, individual regular people will have a finite amount of money for which they'll give up anything and everything.

As for how the site has become worse, plenty of others have already done a better job than I could there. Other people haven't noticed or don't care and that's ok too I guess.

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