On: GitHub has alternatives, but no replacement

[Brian_K_White]

git was harder to use (harder to reason about), but it did something cvs/svn didn't do, so, harder or not, it made something possible vs not possible.

Did you confuse github with git? Indeed centralized git in Github is hardly any different from svn.

[thataccount → Brian_K_White]

>Did you confuse github with git? Indeed centralized git in Github is hardly any different from svn.

I used shorthand since I assumed people here were smart enough to assume that Microsoft buying Git would be understood as Github and not Git. It has proven to be a bad assumption.

[el_io → thataccount]

I don't know, maybe that's because people are somewhat used to see other people confusing Git with GitHub.

There's no way everyone knew you're so smart.

[thataccount → el_io]

>There's no way everyone knew you're so smart.

Could be because everyone is so eager to assume I'm so dumb. ;) Regardless, the communication wasn't clear enough to convey the meaning, and that much is on me. I won't make that mistake again.

[tombert → thataccount]

The article in which you are replying to is specifically about different git-compatible forges, not just Github. If you use "Git", people are going to (correctly) think you're referring to the version control software, not Github. This isn't weird.

[Brian_K_White → thataccount]

You may want to read this comment again and really evaluate it as if you didn't write it. Maybe shop it around. Ask your wife, or better some random people with the names scrubbed so they don't know it's you, to tell you who is the asshole and exactly why. What about the statement exposes the asshole by it's own self-contained internal logic? I know, it doesn't matter what 9 out of 10 say, even if they all say the same thing and point out the same reasons, all that proves is "it has proven to be a bad assumption" that everyone else isn't an idiot eh?

Man that's convenient. Why didn't I ever think of that genius way to resolve everything? Oh right, duh.

[samatman → Brian_K_White]

You may want to read this comment again and really evaluate it as if you didn't write it. Maybe shop it around. Ask your wife, or better some random people with the names scrubbed so they don't know it's you, to tell you who is the asshole and exactly why.

[Brian_K_White → samatman]

"The one that was wrong about soimething, and then when shown, doubled down and blamed everyone else."

"The one than said everyone else disappoints them, and doing that while being in error themselves is just an extra shovel full."

I'll cop to my own smarminess, but that came later, as reaction, not an action.

[inigyou → Brian_K_White]

that thing was not decentralisation, btw - it was cheap branching. Branching in SVN is an ordeal that basically copies the whole project into a new folder with separate history and then good luck merging it later. Branching in Git is trivial and doesn't even require any communication with the server admin.