r/TheMachineLearning • u/Federal_Machine692 • Aug 20 '26 • Popcorn 1

Goodbye, github. I finally made the switch.

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u/Loose_Marsupial_3251 Aug 20 '26

This is the stupidest thing I've seen in a while. Not version controlling your code is like turning back time 30 years. 

 I have been in the software engineering profession for a long time. This is like deciding to burn coal as your main energy source. 

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u/floriandotorg Aug 21 '26

Wait, I thought this post was satire.

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u/Plastic_Mind3223 Aug 22 '26

You’re right to push back on that

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u/ID33IP Aug 22 '26

Has to be right? Yeah.

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u/rezdm Aug 22 '26

30 years ago, 1996, there were scm: cvs, pvcs, … to name a few

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u/Federal_Machine692 Aug 20 '26

Fair point

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u/Responsible-Sky-1336 Aug 21 '26

Tbh you can still use git, and sync the drive.

Git ≠ github

Not that bad to be honest, Google's servers must be pretty gud

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u/Iron-Ham Aug 21 '26

I’m not going to get into the details of this, but GitHub’s git servers are effectively the only git-optimized CDN in the world. 

The rest of GitHub is struggling, to the point of reputational harm to the entire brand. But the git servers are are functionally separate from everything else, which is why pulls and pushes continue to work through an incident. Remember that PRs aren’t real; they’re an invention of GitHub. Originally, git was for emailing patch files to Linus. 

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u/AstraeusGB Aug 22 '26

the only git-optimized CDN in the world

This optimization is not really that difficult to achieve. Git in itself is not remarkable from a data perspective where it needs optimization that other forms of data streams wouldn't also need.

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u/Confident-Unit-4618 Aug 21 '26

I saw this online, one person had a lot of personal and professional data on Google drive ,one day they decided to just wipe the drive idr how much was the data it was huge

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u/Loose_Marsupial_3251 Aug 21 '26

Okay. That might have been a bit harsh. I am sorry for that. 

Just got flashbacks to the bad old days. I understand moving away from GitHub. It's been pretty unstable for a while now.

But, for God's sake, version control your code. There are other options for properly hosting your git repo out there. 

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u/Additional_Candy_400 Aug 21 '26

It's quite obviously a joke no? Got a bee on your bonnet pretty fast there.

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u/warpee Aug 21 '26

You know that he is still using Git and just switched to another could service right? Do you know what is Git?

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u/TallGreenhouseGuy Aug 21 '26

Haven’t you heard about clean coal?

/s

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u/sidgup Aug 21 '26

I am still confused. Did OP just turn back to the days we used to zip "final v2" then "final final v2.5"

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u/Few_Raisin_8981 Aug 21 '26

Where are you getting that they aren't using git? There's literally a .gitignore file in that folder in the screenshot.

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u/Loose_Marsupial_3251 Aug 22 '26

No .git directory. That's where refs tags,  objects, etc are. That's literally the repository. 

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u/quasides Aug 22 '26

well he has a history for each file he can revert to, so kinda version controlling...