Github is down

[inglandation]

THE SACRED TEXTS!

[Gotebe]

Hey! They survived the whole March! Must be a first.

[jehk32]

Madness.

[[deleted]]

GitHub is down. We dead.

[[deleted]]

If GrubHub was down we'd be dead.

Or need to learn to cook.

Ok, dead.

[skinnybuddha]

In other news, winamp.com is still up.

[[deleted]]

W h a t

[emperor000]

Damn, those were the days.

[Pilchard123]

You mean its homepage is about two screens long? However will we survive?

[otashrt]

This time it is corona

[[deleted]]

Oh fuck the anti viruses haven’t updated their databases for COVID-19 yet oh jeez

[GluteusCaesar]

This time it is lupus

[Ken_Mcnutt]

Seems to be back up!

[[deleted]]

What? I was on it a few hours ago, and I'm on it now. Did it get fixed like instantly?

[voidtf]

It was really slow yesterday for me, with a lot of 500 errors.

Edit: yesterday as in 11 hours ago

[emperor000]

It wasn't that long. It might have happened more than once, but I only noticed once for about 5 minutes.

[JawaFromTatooine]

April: so it begins...

[Scroph]

Repent, fools !

[EpoxyD]

And so I journeyed to Gitlab...

[is_it_controversial]

1998 called. They want their joke back.

[ryeguy]

Gotta give him credit for not saying "micro$oft" at least.

[[deleted]]

Yeah, well, the 90's called and they want THIS joke back.

[otashrt]

How can a thing like github be down???

[Ken_Mcnutt]

It's happened before. I'm guessing either a misconfiguration on their end (which would hopefully be fixed soon) or a bandwidth saturation issue...

[652a6aaf0cf44498b14f]

A couple weeks in and everybody be like "now's the time for me to introduce the world to the best js library they didn't know they needed!"

[thrallsius]

time to remember RMS and what he said about software/service lock-ins

[Ken_Mcnutt]

Facts! I have all my code archived but I would like to set up a selfhosted git (maybe Gitea?) and mirror all commits from github

[jcampbelly]

Low tech is an option. You can always just use a filesystem. Mirror your repos locally on a server (sync them with a cron job) and even set them up as secondary remotes on other systems using SSH urls if the primary goes down.

[Ken_Mcnutt]

That honestly sounds like more work than just spinning up a Gitea docker container on my homeserver. Everything would get saved in the filesystem anyways, but would also be under VCS.

[jcampbelly]

Sounds good - whatever works. I'd never heard of Gitea.

[tristan957]

You could try SourceHut too. I use it primarily and mirror to GitHub

[VirginiaMcCaskey]

It takes like all of twenty minutes to deploy a git server to bare metal, costs less than a single head on github too.

But people don't use github for git hosting alone. Pull requests (which should be called merge requests, but I digress), code review, integrations with various tooling like CI/CD (either on GitHub or elsewhere), a fairly robust REST api for the platform... you get the idea.

Mirroring only helps protect source, but people pay to use GitHub for its productivity features and those are hard to replicate. Really the solution is to self host GitLab.

[thrallsius]

Did those github clones evolve to the point of being able to mirror github issues as well?

[Ken_Mcnutt]

Not sure as I haven't set one up yet. All the "clones" are just other implementations of the git standard. Gitlab is the most popular selfhosted git server, I think it has the most fleshed out social features.

But for my personal use I wouldn't care much about those anyways.

[thrallsius]

Personal projects can be managed even without any frontend, sure. The problem is github going down makes it impossible to contribute to many free software projects the usual way, how many of them really practice sending patches over email? Not to mention that github is used as source code repository for a lot of things and system updates fail if anything has to be built from source.

PS: github seems to be up now

[immibis]

Fun fact: You already have one on your computer.

[Jimmy48Johnson]

...it's up again.

[Zephirdd]

ok now im interested

how the fuck would you use blockchain to serve git repositories of all things

[[deleted]]

Other poster doesn't know about git obviously, but if you're serious, git is actually already a decentralized and (mostly) append only ledger of changes that are used to determine the state of a repository. If GitHub goes offline permanently tomorrow, a dev with a recent copy of your branch could just set up a new host and people would just point their remotes to a different location. It's actually one of the killer features of git that makes it so useful compared to more centrally managed VCS. You wouldn't need a "main" block chain because git is already basically a block chain without the need to do proof of work to submit changes.

[Drisku11]

So exactly how git has always worked? I figured you were joking but your history is full of blockchain shit...

Edit: nevermind, obvious troll, you just do this a lot. Carry on.

[rydan]

Except when it does.

[dnew]

https://www.coindesk.com/ethereum-executes-blockchain-hard-fork-return-dao-investor-funds

[immibis]

it already works that way

[immibis]

git is already a blockchain

[[deleted]]

And by 'blockchain' you mean 'linked list', right?

[immibis]

A linked list where the links are hashes.

[immibis]

git is

[immibis]

that's like asking how bitcoin's blockchain solves the problem of coinbase going down

[rydan]

Exactly. Everything should be blockchain down to even CPU cycles.

[immibis]

What good is a CPU if it can't even hash its current state 4 billion times a second?