▲ 245 ▼ Nintendo Wipes Out 400+ Switch Emulator Repos in Single-Day GitHub Sweep * TorrentFreak (torrentfreak.com) submitted 2 months ago by themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@lemmy.world 44 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] dudeface@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago (5 children) Git is meant to be decentralised permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 5 child comments replies: [–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 months ago (4 children) Yeah, but it needs a address to point to, to work with others repositories. Which with http is centralized. Wouldn't be with a distributed protocol. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] dudeface@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (3 children) I don’t think you know how git works permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago* (2 children) I do know that it keeps a local copy of the repo. But it's not designed to work with a pool, so it needs a specific address to work together/clone/share repos. I'm by no means an expert in git, did i overlook something? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Anafabula@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 2 months ago (1 child) Technically you can add as many remotes to a repo as you want and push/pull to any/all of them. Might be annoying though permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 2 points 2 months ago Its quite common in some industries. Lots of different git remote references no github. It works well when you dont care or dont want piulic repos out in the wild. I used to do a ton of contract work that way. It went away forva bit but about 3 years ago its coming back. Ive heard complaits about ai and that github is much less stable. You cant have downtime in some industries. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 months ago (4 children) Yeah, but it needs a address to point to, to work with others repositories. Which with http is centralized. Wouldn't be with a distributed protocol. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] dudeface@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (3 children) I don’t think you know how git works permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago* (2 children) I do know that it keeps a local copy of the repo. But it's not designed to work with a pool, so it needs a specific address to work together/clone/share repos. I'm by no means an expert in git, did i overlook something? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Anafabula@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 2 months ago (1 child) Technically you can add as many remotes to a repo as you want and push/pull to any/all of them. Might be annoying though permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 2 points 2 months ago Its quite common in some industries. Lots of different git remote references no github. It works well when you dont care or dont want piulic repos out in the wild. I used to do a ton of contract work that way. It went away forva bit but about 3 years ago its coming back. Ive heard complaits about ai and that github is much less stable. You cant have downtime in some industries. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] dudeface@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (3 children) I don’t think you know how git works permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago* (2 children) I do know that it keeps a local copy of the repo. But it's not designed to work with a pool, so it needs a specific address to work together/clone/share repos. I'm by no means an expert in git, did i overlook something? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Anafabula@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 2 months ago (1 child) Technically you can add as many remotes to a repo as you want and push/pull to any/all of them. Might be annoying though permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 2 points 2 months ago Its quite common in some industries. Lots of different git remote references no github. It works well when you dont care or dont want piulic repos out in the wild. I used to do a ton of contract work that way. It went away forva bit but about 3 years ago its coming back. Ive heard complaits about ai and that github is much less stable. You cant have downtime in some industries. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago* (2 children) I do know that it keeps a local copy of the repo. But it's not designed to work with a pool, so it needs a specific address to work together/clone/share repos. I'm by no means an expert in git, did i overlook something? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Anafabula@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 2 months ago (1 child) Technically you can add as many remotes to a repo as you want and push/pull to any/all of them. Might be annoying though permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 2 points 2 months ago Its quite common in some industries. Lots of different git remote references no github. It works well when you dont care or dont want piulic repos out in the wild. I used to do a ton of contract work that way. It went away forva bit but about 3 years ago its coming back. Ive heard complaits about ai and that github is much less stable. You cant have downtime in some industries. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Anafabula@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 2 months ago (1 child) Technically you can add as many remotes to a repo as you want and push/pull to any/all of them. Might be annoying though permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 2 points 2 months ago Its quite common in some industries. Lots of different git remote references no github. It works well when you dont care or dont want piulic repos out in the wild. I used to do a ton of contract work that way. It went away forva bit but about 3 years ago its coming back. Ive heard complaits about ai and that github is much less stable. You cant have downtime in some industries. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 2 points 2 months ago Its quite common in some industries. Lots of different git remote references no github. It works well when you dont care or dont want piulic repos out in the wild. I used to do a ton of contract work that way. It went away forva bit but about 3 years ago its coming back. Ive heard complaits about ai and that github is much less stable. You cant have downtime in some industries. permalink fedilink source parent