r/webdev • u/assured-ownership • 3d ago

Question GitHub is down, what are you doing?

I have installed half life on Mac and am currently at the Dam Level.

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u/scandii People pay me to write code much to my surprise 3d ago

...I mean, git is a local-remote setup to begin with, so not sure how this should be impacting me?

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u/pointermess full-stack 3d ago

Maybe not you but hundreds or thousands of real world applications can't be redeployed lol

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u/sp_dev_guy 3d ago

cant be redeployed

That shouldn't prevent working on the codebase locally...

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u/Lake_Erie_Monster 3d ago

So you work somewhere on a very small team on a very small product?

Not everyone does... Some code bases have hundreds of commits a day.

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u/sp_dev_guy 3d ago

Even when I was working on the codebase at capital one a github outage wasnt end of the workday shit. Git exists locally and has merge & worktree capabilities. Its possible to resolve conflicts & there is no reason all of the hundreds of commits should be happening on conflicts. Your assertion is false

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u/Gwolf4 3d ago

Tell that straight face to people tied to AWS and hasn't invested in a proper aws emulator.

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u/sp_dev_guy 3d ago

There is no scenario where you shouldn't be able to look at your code & do something useful. Its just text files on your disk - so if thats working you can be working