Re:Pin-pointing China's attack against GitHub
by Daishiman on Thursday April 02, 2015 @04:32AM
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If GitHub were down for two days that's a metric shitload of projects that can't get deployed. There's a significant number of software projects with dependencies on Github-hosted stuff.
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If github were down for two days, you're probably right, those projects can't be deployed.
But if github were down for two months, the nature of git suggests that deployment for those many individual projects would shift either to the originators' infrastructure, or some other aggregating service.
Re:Pin-pointing China's attack against GitHub
by jonalmeida on Thursday April 02, 2015 @11:09AM
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This is true but very limited as well. GitHub isn't used for just git now, it's also an issue tracker, a wiki (yes, those are repos as well, but you don't usually have them sync'd), Github-only services (e.g. Travis), package managers (e.g. Cocoapods and Crates).
There is a lot riding on GitHub that developers use. Hell, even closed-source companies sometimes use empty GitHub repos so they can use Issues for openly available tracking.