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[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I'd change

  • Github, ... To
  • Git, for version control
[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This assumes that OP actually meant git...

I fear they may have had no idea what the distinction between git and GitHub is and intended to say GitHub.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Thought it was a good opportunity to potentionally learn something new. Seems to have worked out.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Changed, but why Git but not GitHub for version control:

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (3 children)

There's plenty of git forges that aren't GitHub. Git itself has nothing to do with central servers and can theoretically be used in a completely decentralized manner.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

At college some guys were self hosting a git server for a project but it went down. We resorted to a USB stick that acted as remote and was passed around. That was awesome to see, for about a day...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Lol. Git itself can act as a server over the git protocol. Might have been easier 🤪

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Also if you go with git instead of github you should use git's icon

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Agreed, here you go: