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I hate github, tell me about cool projects and apps that is hosted on alternative platforms (Not mirrored). (biglemmowski.win)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago (2 children)

If you want to contribute to a project developed on GitHub, you need to have a GitHub account. So it does matter.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Actually, you can send the diff patches by email/ pastebin/ gitlab/ etc. It's up to the main developer to take your contribution seriously, given the level of annoyance you might be presenting. Same happens in the other direction, you can host your code on sourcehut, but many junior devs could be repelled by the old school ux.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I dont get how that works, you mail those lines with all those

+line
+something
-something

And they can like transform that into git and have it work as an actual patch?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

This website explains the process: https://git-send-email.io/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Yes, it's called a diff and git was designed with exactly this workflow in mind because it's how the Linux kernel has been developed for decades. GitHub is just a new fangled way to social network-ize the git workflow.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

So make a private email only for GitHub