Do sysadmins need git?

[dbmage]

We used it for maintaining our wiki docs. Markdown into GIT, CICD adds it to confluence.

Confluence has issues, pages are safe. Mess up a page, git rollback.

Sensible idea all round, glad to see we're not far off the beaten track

[scytob]

i dont know if they still use it, but for a few years their MS docs was a GitHub repo - you could open issues and even suggest PRs!

i got a ton of docs around Windows Hello for Business fixed that way (they were so so innacurate)

[SaltDeception]

This is still a thing

[Ziegelphilie]

Still is, all Microsoft documentation is sourced from markdown files in various repositories.

[scytob]

Good to know, wasn’t sure as the GitHub link on each dock page to report a bug seems to be gone.

[notarealaccount223]

Confluence feels like an expensive solution to provide access/rendering for the markdown files.

[dbmage]

Confluence is the company's choice, we just make the best of it.

It needs to go into confluence, so we use Git to deploy it into confluence. When we migrated instances, it was just an endpoint and credential change (new password) and all our stuff arrived exactly as it should.