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Re:Ask HN: Tools of the trade, 2013 edition by simonw on Sunday February 17, 2013 @02:19PM (#5236310)
The GitHub web interface is SO much better than running your own repository. Pull requests are awesome for code reviews, the code browsing interface is best of breed, and if you use their issue tracker and/or wiki everything links together fantastically well.
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Re:Ask HN: Tools of the trade, 2013 edition by bpatrianakos on Tuesday February 19, 2013 @04:13PM (#5247065)
I just wrote about this very thing yesterday. I'm wondering why people don't host their own git repos. Yeah, GitHub's interface is amazing but is it always necessary? I can only understand using GitHub for git for open source stuff and maybe large team stuff. Otherwise there's really no need for that fancy UI with private repositories. Just branch, pull, and inspect the code. It's not like it takes any longer than waiting for GitHub's pages to load. But hey, maybe I'm the weirdo and everyone else is sane.
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Re:Ask HN: Tools of the trade, 2013 edition by Silhouette on Sunday February 17, 2013 @05:43PM (#5237060)
The GitHub web interface is SO much better than running your own repository.

And all you have to do is trust probably your second most valuable asset to an external service outside your organisation... What could possibly go wrong?

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Re:Ask HN: Tools of the trade, 2013 edition by gatherknwldg on Sunday February 17, 2013 @06:20PM (#5237188)
Your cash is a valuable asset to your startup, too, but people don't store that in-house.

Who do you trust more, github or Wall Street?

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Re:Ask HN: Tools of the trade, 2013 edition by casca on Sunday February 17, 2013 @08:37PM (#5237625)
This is true, but it's a question of what the risk is. Externally hosting usually has 2 possible catastrophic outcomes: data loss and data exposure.

As you probably have the code checked out by a number of employees, data loss is annoying but not catastrophic as you're probably not losing anything more than a few hours time.

Data exposure would have a greater impact, but the likelihood is probably around the same as if you run your own repo through credential compromise. The Github security team is probably around the same level of effectiveness as you are.

So it's probably not that big a deal. Having said that, we self-host our git repos :).

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