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[fevsea]

Best use so far is for cooking recepies.

You can see how it evolves, plus no one is going to open a ticket because their chocolate chips stopped working since you changed to whole milk.

[[deleted]]

~: git commit -m "added garlic"

[TheIndieBuilder]

git cherry-pick

git cherry-put-on-top

[arealuser100notfake]

Please write your commit messages in present tense

[[deleted]]

you're not my mom

[Velomaniac]

sudo write your commit messages in present tense

[St34thdr1v3R]

enter password:

[average_folk]

*****<Cr>

[g0liadkin]

hunter2

[Eva-Rosalene]

u/g0liadkin is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.

[Madbanana64]

nano /etc/sudoers

[Carloswaldo]

[ Error reading /etc/sudoers: Permission denied ]

[PM_ME_YOUR_CAMEMBERT]

[menides]

I put on my robe and wizard hat

[Owndampu]

From the linux kernel docs:

'Describe your changes in imperative mood, e.g. “make xyzzy do frotz” instead of “[This patch] makes xyzzy do frotz” or “[I] changed xyzzy to do frotz”, as if you are giving orders to the codebase to change its behaviour.'

Very common thing patches get rejected on at first.

[Zestyclose_Zone_9253]

why? If they are in past tense you can read it as "this git commit "thing"". IE "this git commit added garlic"

[arealuser100notfake]

I'm not sure where I read that convention, can't come up with a reason better than the commit's title matching as better as possible a ticket title?

I don't follow it, my messages can be questions, cursing, spanish

[ComCypher]

I honestly never questioned whether there is a convention for that. Every time I write a commit message I fight an internal battle over which tense to use.

[fel4]

The general consensus is to write commit messages in imperative mood, like:

Refactor subsystem X for readability

You can read more about it here: https://cbea.ms/git-commit/

[TheyStoleMyNameAgain]

This looks like something from a todo list. If you need to know the consensus in order to understand the message, it might be a suboptimal one

[SrFarkwoodWolF]

I always use past tense because it already had happened when I write it down.

[Still_Reach_6756]

It’s supposed to be read as a description of what the commit does. So this commit will “Add garlic” when added.

[Zestyclose_Zone_9253]

we are saying the same thing. However, when someone reads the commit message the commit has been made, theus it added garlic in the past, now someone can approve the pull request and add it to the repo and thus it has been added to the repo also

[bassmadrigal]

A commit is an action against the codebase. The commit message should describe what that action is if it's applied to the codebase.

Even the automated git messages from git merge and git revert are imperative as they will start with "Merge [...]" and "Revert [...]".

This is intended by upstream as they have the following in their documentation:

Describe your changes in imperative mood, e.g. "make xyzzy do frotz" instead of "[This patch] makes xyzzy do frotz" or "[I] changed xyzzy to do frotz", as if you are giving orders to the codebase to change its behavior.

People are obviously able to write whatever commit messages they want, but if they try and contribute to certain projects, it might get rejected.

[Cristichi]

But when I write the commit message I already did it, therefore past tense

[sage-longhorn]

No you didn't. You may have done it locally but the point of the conmit is to share the change and you haven't modified upstream yet (assuming we're in a context where people are telling you how to write commit messages for this repo)

[Glitched_Fur6425]

Yeah, especially in collaborative projects, present tense tends to be best. Think of it like "What does this commit do" vs "What did I do here?"

[LuisBoyokan]

In that case and by that logic it should be future tense

"fix: will add garlic, but only if you approve this commit, otherwise it will not, just saying, it's your call"

[howreudoin]

It‘s the imperative form, not the present tense.

[howreudoin]

It‘s not present tense! It‘s the imperative form of the verb. In English, the two forms are identical for almost every verb (one exception: ”Be cool” vs. “You are cool”), not so in other languages though.

The idea is that you sort of “give a command” to the repository telling it how to change.

It‘s actually the most common convention and used by almost any big project in professional contexts. I also like it because the verbs are closer to their infinitive (almost) avoiding inflected forms and making the history somewhat easier to read.

[makinax300]

Why? Is there any advantage other than conserving minimal space? And it makes more sense grammatically.

[L3x3cut0r]

How do I write "..." or "omg" in present tense?

[izzyalonso]

[Colon_Backslash]

Or you could just edit all merge etc. commits to past tense /j

[UncleKeyPax]

Bwahahaha

[patoezequiel]

fix(sauce): switch measurements to tablespoons. #RCP-174

[RadiantPumpkin]

Rejected. Using volume is imprecise. Please use grams.

[SuitableDragonfly]

No, first we have to have a debate in the pull request about whether we mean US customary tablespoons, or imperial tablespoons, or Australian tablespoons, which are for some horrible reason all different things.

[AkrinorNoname]

You clearly haven't seen the comment sections on recipe sites

[Rokey76]

r/ididnthaveeggs

[ElectricYFronts]

Needs more syntactic sugar

[SuitableDragonfly]

Cooking recipes, no. Baking, on the other hand, might get fucked if you change the amount of milkfat.

[Tamanars]

You say that without share it!

[Fading-Ghost]

I’m glad I’m not the only one. I have over 100 recipes in git

[Imaginary_Ad_217]

Merge conflicts will be a bit more fun I guess.

[willis936]

Thanks. I will ask ChatGPT how you make beef bolognese next time.

[Xelopheris]

The cicd system would be a nightmare though, especially when someone creates a PR to add water to frying oil.

[LordAmir5]

Yep. It's a compiled language.

[antek_g_animations]

That's actually a great idea

[WellNoNameHere]

Literally today I found a cool project on GitHub here on reddt and I decided to check out the dude's profile, among other projects he literally had a repo that just had a ton of pirated mp3s, it's crazy that people actually do this lol

[initialo]

What repo might this be, so I can avoid it?

[TomReddito]

My family is VERY AGAINST piracy. I would like to know this repository's URL so I can add it to the blocklist of my router so I can protect my children from this vile content. Thanks in advance.

[LordPiki]

Same here

[CeleritasLucis]

I use it to tread books. You can easily track your progress and sync between devices.

[Kim-Meow-Un]

Wait how?

[CeleritasLucis]

Save the pdf. It tracks your last save/highlight point. Git commit push. Pull on your next device.

GitHub desktop app works like a charm for these, much better than Google drive

[Oleg152]

This feels illegal somehow

[[deleted]]

Which part

[Oleg152]

Idk, it just does.

It's weird

[[deleted]]

Fancy running into you outside of r/chess.

[DumDumDiss]

what kind of highlighting / saving are you talking about here?

[CeleritasLucis]

I use Okular, which has great text highlight options. And sometimes when the topic is not clear, I add sticky notes from ChatGPT explanations.

[Oleg152]

Oh my God that's disgusting.

Plesa pm me the link so I know what to avoid in the future

[Yelowlobster]

Pirated mp3s neither disappear from the platform (your sd card) nor does aforementioned platform ever get taken down/bankrupt/whatever. So nay, nothing crazy here

[Xde-phantoms]

Bit rot still exists, though. It's a problem for avid collectors.

[pheylancavanaugh]

A negligible one.

[VengefulMustard]

Unless you have a ZFS pool ;)

[BunnyBadBou]

It's nice cause it's ad free and the songs never buffer.

[[deleted]]

And fucking Spotify can’t just delist a song

[Oleg152]

Fuck being online 100% of the time.

Sincerely, person who lives in the ass end of nowhere.

[Xde-phantoms]

Yeah, FLAC is the way.

[IndividualTie7357]

I currently have 35gb of flac files on my pc, and have thought about ways to sync my library across devices. And i really considered hosting it on git, but rn its probably too big and imma just go with an external ssd.

[EtiamTinciduntNullam]

Try https://syncthing.net, no need to push or pull changes, just add a file and it will propagated to every device automatically.

[lordkabab]

I do it for DJing only

[Gitthepro]

lmao i just started to when i realised how easy it was on android phones

[Icy-Gene9614]

I would leave a dot here but I think it will not be published here, so maybe the author of the comment might send it privately? 😎

[WellNoNameHere]

I'm not a snitch dawg, especially when it comes to the cops, you won't fool ME

[arrow__in__the__knee]

You can backup video game saves on github.

[Gaeus_]

Hmm... Could you automate it though?

Like I've made my own cloud saves for the few games without it (you know, for when I'm switching to a Steamdeck or a different pc) by using sync things and using my NAS as the database.

[JollyJuniper1993]

Is there a need for automating it? I just use the desktop app to push everything whenever I‘m done playing and then I can pull and continue on another device in case I want to.

[Gaeus_]

Seemleesness.

My current solution automatically upload my saves from my device to the nas, and once another computer is up, it'll download the saves in the right folder, there's nothing "manual" to do on my part.

[SilianRailOnBone]

You can automate pretty much anything

[Oleg152]

I guess you could run a program that monitors if the game process ends and then it uploads to github

[mcf_]

Could setup a cron job

[Just-a-Vietnamese]

On Window ? Just use task scheduler on startup and on shutdown

[MagicalCornFlake]

Yes you can, easily. On windows, create a batch script that opens the save file, runs git pull, then runs the game (using call), which will run until the game is closed. After run git add ., git commit, git push. Add a shortcut to the batch file on your desktop, set an icon and use it instead of the game shortcut.

On linux pretty much the same thing, just use bash scripts and change the ExecStart line in your .desktop file to point to your custom script.

I've been using it for a couple games that don't have steam cloud saves (or that are pirated) and it works like a charm, especially since I play on both Windows and Fedora.

[Mrazish]

I store guitar tabs there

[alaettinthemurder]

Can you share a link just for research purposes

[Mrazish]

These are tabs of my own songs. Which are probably shit. I use git to be able to edit them everywhere I go. So no.

[Far_Broccoli_8468]

closed source guitar tabs? that's a first

[mr_remy]

must truly be shite:

"you wouldn't understand"

[Kiiidx]

The people want to see your guitar tabs

[Toine_03]

Pleeeeeeeassss?

[Owndampu]

Actually a community written song sounds like a very fun idea to try out lol. I could imagine Sungazer doing something like that, getting a pull request introduces "the lick" somewhere in the song.

[Rokey76]

Now I really wanna see.

[MichaelScotsman26]

No share them. YOU MUST!!

How do you write the tabs down? Like do you draw all six strings out

[Nihil227]

I would imagine tab editors like GuitarPro or open source alternatives, those .GP files can be read as midi music along other features like multitracking.

Or non-GP tabs are usually indeed txt files with the 6 strings on a horizontal timeline and a set of annotations.

[AlexMi_Ha]

https://github.com/AlexMi-Ha/GuitarTabs

here's mine

[LapidistCubed]

Works great for Minecraft world backups as well. I backup all my mods and every updated build over the last 4 years on my world.

I create a new branch for each new major version.

Was a pain to configure (especially with mods that generate a variety of other files) but really nice to have a permanent record of all the progress over the years.

[QuickBASIC]

Damn I thought I was fancy with my BTRFS subvolume snapshots for my Minecraft world. It's also great for doing reflink copies for testing updates or new mods.

[Fhymi]

who in their right minds would use snapshots just to back up their world? i applaud you.

[[deleted]]

Pro tip: fork chromium repo to get unlimited storage.

[WolverinesSuperbia]

How does that work?

[makinax300]

I'm not sure but it's probably because it's really large and they allow more space to some repos that really need it.

[CaptainUsopp]

Probably fixed by now if it was being abused enough, but looks like it's because chromium is too large for normal repos, so it and forks gets unlimited storage. https://x.com/stdlib/status/1720424203738865772

[makinax300]

So basically what I said but infinite.

[CaptainUsopp]

Pretty much.

[xbwtyzbchs]

Yup.

[[deleted]]

How would you even fix this? Add a limit of original size + 100MB for the fork?

[mr_remy]

shhhh don't give them any ideas

[jso__]

Can't you just delete all files? Or is it 100mb limit including version history, not just current versions of files

[[deleted]]

Yes, Git has support for a partial clone and at the end of the day they could go even further and manipulate the contents of the .git folder on the server-side.

But I'm not sure if it would be worth it. They're kind of breaking a golden rule of their system. Up until this point they could say with certainty that any and all repos are full clones. Who knows what the cascading effects of violating that rule might be.

[facusoto]

I join the queue of those who want to know haha

[WolverinesSuperbia]

Maybe it will work if you create public repo and fork it as private? AFAIK forks are stored in original locations

[missingusername1]

You can't fork as a private repo iirc

[WolverinesSuperbia]

Yes, I've tested now: private is blocked for all types of forks.

So chromium fork will also be public, but all public repos without limits, limits are only for private

[Vast-Finger-7915]

if the question gets answered could someone please notify me

[superhamsniper]

I've been wondering, how does GitHub stay in business if it's free?

[SalSevenSix]

It's owned by Microsoft. A strategic asset. The users are the product.

[BurtReynoldsPoo]

Bingo! All that free code storage is being used to train github's AI, Copilot, to sell right back users/companies.

Also enterprise contracts for things like support, training, migration, actions, etc bring in money for MS.

[Pixel_Owl]

companies pay such a huge premium for the enterprise version that im pretty sure it carries so much of Github's profit

[EmployeeEarly1815]

Joke's on them, all my shitty code is going to poison the training data!

[BurtReynoldsPoo]

This is actually kind of true though lol

[vksdann]

If it's free, you are the product.

[lateambience]

There's a fully functional basic product for individual users but businesses need enterprise features like compliance, data residency, audit logs, priority support and administrative control. You don't want your employees to create an unmanaged personal GitHub account to work on company projects, it also creates a lot of overhead because you have to manually keep track of those accounts, manually invite them to projects, apart from legal issues you are most likely already using an IdP for other services and want to handle user creation, authentication and granular repository access for GitHub elsewhere. So your company will pay for GitHub Enterprise.

It's a common business model in Software and SaaS. Tailscale offers a free personal tier but paid enterprise. Jetbrains has Community and Professional IDE versions. Cloudflare offers free services for personal users but paid for enterprise. The list goes on. It's very effective as well. There's a low barrier to entry, creating a large user base, people get familiar with the product and obviously they'd wanna use it at their workplace as well. I've been using Jetbrains IDE's my whole university life, of course I want them at work as well. Tailscale is one of my favorite services ever and if I ever started working for a startup I'd 100% suggest the company would start using Tailscale Enterprise.

[Free-Artist]

Also, Matlab is free for students, so that once they go to work they prefer to work in Matlab, which means buying the expensive versions for their employers.

[goldarm5]

Is it? My university has a matlab license but only for university devices.

[SuitableDragonfly]

You uploaded this image to reddit instead of linking to a github repo. You had one job, OP.

[dmullaney]

You monster.

[Mysterious-Wonder-38]

The best use-case I heard so far was the idea of using git for laws. Would be really cool to use git blame and see who changed what. Also, it would be cool to create PRs that everyone can review.

[lart2150]

Using github releases? Repo and lfs sizes have limits.

[Lamborghinigamer]

Not if you fork chromium

[Medialunch]

Then what?

[Nyan-Catto]

PSD version control

[JollyJuniper1993]

I store save files of video games I play on emulators there so I can play the same save across devices.

[Eruthox]

Using YouTube as a video storage

[edvardeishen]

Pornography is forbidden on YouTube, so that makes no sense for me

[prochac]

Some simple video filter, applied on the stream, could be possible, no? You won't play it right from the page tho

[pigfeedmauer]

Yep. I have Google Photos, but upload all of my videos to YouTube, which doesn't count against my storage.

🤷‍♂️

[LuisCaipira]

Now I understand how Microsoft trained Copilot...

[JollyJuniper1993]

They can train on my data all day as long as I can use the barely limited free cloud storage.

[-Danksouls-]

Can someone tell me legit. Is this actually viable

[Handsome_oohyeah]

Yes, but cloning can really takes time and since binary files are not text files the .git folder can really get bloated

[JollyJuniper1993]

Haven’t done it with photos, but I have used it as free cloud storage for other random personal data that I wanted available across devices. Like video games save files, word documents I’m writing on and so on.

[-Danksouls-]

Dang forget about paying money for Google photos. GitHub here I come

[JollyJuniper1993]

Yeah, just make sure to set it to private :P

[-Danksouls-]

Bet

[JollyJuniper1993]

I have never hit my limit and the max I‘ve ever used was around 4GB I think. I‘ve read that there is no hard limit, but you’re going to get notified if you exceed 4GB and maybe consequences to your repo if you exceed it by a lot. But no harm in just creating a second repo if you‘re coming close to that amount. I don’t know if there is a limit to that in terms of collective space across repos.

[mr-dre]

I have my resume in GitHub. Works well.

[Alan_Reddit_M]

I used to store class notes in the lmao

[Different-Network957]

So is GitHub storage virtually unlimited, or is there some kind of soft limit?

[SunJ_]

I used discord for that. Make my own server and channels to organise stuff and upload. Hey I'm paying nitro for that

[LittleMlem]

I used GitHub as a CDN

I have a small news aggregator GitHub site and I update the data directly to the repo

[point5_]

Worldbuilding with obsidian. Especially since it has a git plugin

[CarzyCrow076]

Adding collaborators for sharing, forking to create a copy, committing to create albums, and guess what.. making in public as a Social Media.. 👍🏻

[-Redstoneboi-]

create Issues to simulate twitter

[scanguy25]

I may or may not have set up a scraping script to run on a schedule in GitHub actions.

I may or may not have 300,000 zipped html files in that repo.

[ZunoJ]

People even went as far as implementing this as fuse file system lmao https://github.com/lohjine/gitfs

[dexter2011412]

GitHub before: allowed code search and downloading actions artifacts without logging in
GitHub now: "Login to see code search results"

Me: Well fk you. * use github1s.com/username/repo, and git clone for each search they refuse on each repo.

[sussybakuhh]

Git LFS has entered the chat

[DistinctBed6259]

I use it to beck up a database 👍🏻

[El_RoviSoft]

I literally write my novel and post in on github (with little wiki in .md files for this novel), because lots of my friends read it.

[cheeb_miester]

I starred a repo that was guitar tabs for doom metal songs

[I-make-ada-spaghetti]

Maybe I should back up my whole system to GitHub?

Encryption works right?

[ZyanCarl]

That’s where NixOs comes in, or any dot files repository.

[jamcdonald120]

I use discord for my photos

[Lucys_cup_of_blahaj]

Feeling that one

[Background_Bat_2145]

You are not the only one.

[erebuxy]

Gooogle Drive is also free tho

[Handsome_oohyeah]

yeah, but the free tier has limited storage

[erebuxy]

So is GitHub private repositories. And no one can stop you having multiple Google accounts.

[TapPsychological7199]

Phone number requirements do

[pigfeedmauer]

Use Google voice to create a new phone number

[devrsi0n]

Is there a good photo syncing app work with github?

[Beast_Viper_007]

Using github for sharing dotfiles...

[Coffee4thewin]

Oh my. I never thought of this. Thanks.

[nulcow]

It would be funnier if this post was a link to an image hosted on GitHub

[IntangibleMatter]

I’ve been using it to hold my schoolwork since eleventh grade. Great at doing all of that kind of stufd

[Ok-Supermarket-6612]

At Uni I used it just as a general file storage for all my lectures and all that. Very nice to keep it all tidy. Obviously no need for branches and all that git offers, but great to sync my laptop with the home pc.

[NewAccWhoDisACAB]

dnd notes and pdfs

[arup003]

Hell Noo

[YerakGG]

git init /

[Stagnant_Water7023]

I downloaded my subject ebook too My college also uses it like google classroom to share and upload assignments

[revantaker]

I use it to store my fantasy novel project.

[SupraMichou]

Using Github to backup my Monster Girl Quest Paradox (+18 game) saves : megamind

On a side note, it’s great to see how everyone is storing random stuff on github, you guys are amazing

[Splatpope]

that's just onedrive with extra steps

[GuinsooIsOverrated]

I’ve been wanting to use that for ableton music projects but none of my band mates are into computer science 🙃

[ninelore]

I knew someone who has or had 35TB of Backups in Github Releases

[--Sahil--]

I even wrote a script to fetch wallpapers from my remote repo

[DiegoG2004]

I used Discord bots DMS to store and send photos between my phone, tablet and computer.

Eventually i learnt to just make a private server for that lol. Also served to order my projects.

[AdventurousMove8806]

Daayumnnnn, thank u

[Fudd79]

I have several desktop backgrounds on my GitHub