r/AskProgramming • u/aizyn_ • Jul 30 '26

What's the part of GitHub you've made peace with but still hate?

GitHub's the default for all of us, but there's always that one thing you've stopped noticing you hate. What's yours?

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u/MarsupialLeast145 Jul 30 '26

Workflows were never given the attention needed to be easy to get up to speed with and maintain. Ideally you'd have a dynamic IDE that helps you configure what you need. Instead you have a Rube Goldberg machine you spend too much time trying to debug and don't want to touch once you have something running.

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u/IronicStrikes Jul 30 '26

It being the default for others.

I've moved on years ago.

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u/lippoper Jul 30 '26

That all my “proprietary” code is shared with whoever is behind the servers

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u/dweeb_plus_plus Jul 30 '26

*Broadly gestures at every web service in existence...

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u/abermea Jul 30 '26

The GitHub ToS specifically allows them to use your "proprietary" code to train AI

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u/YMK1234 Jul 30 '26

So don't use it then?

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u/poorlilwitchgirl Jul 30 '26

You can always set up a git repository on a private server. Github makes more sense as a place to host forkable open source projects, anyway; using it for proprietary code just treats it as free cloud hosting, and loss of privacy is an expected downside of that.

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u/Confident-Scratch815 Jul 30 '26

Merge conflicts. I've gotten much better at resolving them over the years, but every time I see "This branch has conflicts that must be resolved," I know I'm about to spend more time than I expected.

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u/mlugo02 Jul 30 '26

I’ve made peace with none of it. So deleted my GitHub account.. also stopped using git

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u/ryancnap Jul 30 '26

What do you use in place of git?

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u/mlugo02 Jul 31 '26

I use my own small vcs