undefined | Better HN

0 pointsycmbntrthrwaway10y ago0 comments

What would happen to all those NPM projects if GitHub is destroyed? I don't think it will close anytime soon, but lets say, a meteor shower hits GitHub data center or something along the lines of this.

0 comments

__jal10y ago

I still find it hilarious that, upon the bulk of SCM use shifting to a DVCS, the first[1] thing people did is run out to build a central hub.

[1] For the pedantic, it probably was not literally the first thing; I'm sure some folks went to the rest room, others ate something, still others took a nap.

smsm4210y ago

The thing with DCVS is not that central hub does not exist. It is that you do not need specific central hub. That means if github dies, I can take any of my git repos I checked from github and continue working with them, and create a local git server that would allow others to work with it. Of course, there is a convenience value in having central hub. The point is not denying that, the point is turning it from necessity to option.

mbrock10y ago

That's because central hubs are very useful...

BinaryIdiot10y ago

Well npm doesn't use GitHub for hosting of modules so honestly npm would be fine. Bower on the other hand would be completely screwed.

jessaustin10y ago

It is the nature of git that most repos on GitHub also exist in many other places.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse