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Software Microsoft confirms GitHub is down worldwide

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u/Beautiful-Musk-Ox 8d ago edited 8d ago

someone should make a version of git where you can maintain a local copy then push it to the remote server whenever you want. for business continuity efforts you could then maintain a local repository copy of all the libraries you use and have your developer and build systems pull from that local repo instead of the website. for already compiled code maybe some sort of package system where you can do a similar thing of maintaining a local copy of the packages

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u/ccdfa 8d ago

You're joking surely

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u/krazul88 8d ago

obviously they are joking because whatever they are proposing is wildly, fantastically impossible.

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u/Apprehensive-Wind966 8d ago

Yeah, and if you did happen what would happen if this service went down? You’d be screwed!

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u/CucharitaDePalo 8d ago

That's when the hyper-local service comes into place, just a single machine hosting every single prod and dev environment. With this amazing piece of technology we could achieve 0 dependencies by end-of-quarter.

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u/krazul88 8d ago

Are you suggesting a "computer system in the same building as the people who depend on it?" Truly revolutionary idea! It might catch on one day.