Github service outage

Re:Github service outage by astrodust on Friday November 30, 2012 @03:11PM (#4855188)

Since git is a distributed version control system, why not create replicas of your important repos so in the event of an outage you have alternatives? Anything with a working ssh can be used as a host, it doesn't have to be fancy. GitHub's hooks make it easy to write things that can react to push notifications.

BitBucket has made strides in improving their front-end app, but it's still far, far behind GitHub in terms of features and integration.

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Re:Github service outage by yebyen on Friday November 30, 2012 @03:16PM (#4855216)

Yes, it's distributed

I use mr to keep my multiple repositories in sync (And they all laugh at me!) across hosts in places where git submodule seems inappropriate and there's no android 'repo' manifest.

If you're paying, "but it's distributed" does not ease the pain. You didn't buy a GitHub account because of the 'Git' -- you can get that for free! You bought it because of the 'Hub' and if you made it your hub, now you're dead in the water, scrambling to find another place to coordinate.

At least I guess that's the point of this article. Not sure. Doesn't look down to me, and I'm not a paying user.

*EDIT: I see it's only some users/repositories that are down, and it's not a general outage. I wonder if it's only paying users.

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Re:Github service outage by Adaptive on Friday November 30, 2012 @03:38PM (#4855319)

Upvote for mr. This is a great tool that I just started using more seriously (initially I used it to automate my linux box setups, but it's useful on a day to day basis as well).

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Re:Github service outage by dpcx on Friday November 30, 2012 @03:58PM (#4855402)

Whatis 'mr'?

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Re:Github service outage by pyre on Friday November 30, 2012 @04:11PM (#4855463)

My path:

- Search github for 'mr'

- See: https://github.com/joeyh/mr

- joeyh is the creator of git-annex, and github says 'mr' is in Perl, which is one of joeyh's favored languages. Assume he's the creator of 'mr'.

- Go to joeyh's site: http://joeyh.name

- Browse to: http://joeyh.name/code/mr/

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Re:Github service outage by tonfa on Friday November 30, 2012 @05:08PM (#4855727)

or more simply, google for [mr git] and go directly to http://joeyh.name/code/mr/

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