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23 pointsyogsototh8y ago15 comments

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captn3m08y ago· 5 in thread

don't do this please.

I run my own gitea instance, and for repos that are in multiple places, I leave a note in the readme as to what the canonical URL is. If someone wants to open a PR or an issue on Github I don't wanna be hostile by having them create another account just to ask a question. Once the patch is merged, it gets pushed on all remotes.

If you have a large project with lots of contributors and activity, and you actively want to discourage contributions in the wrong place, you can disable issues or PRs for that one repo.

Also, people browse code using GitHub clients, serving an empty Readme is not a good idea to break that behaviour.

pbhjpbhj8y ago

Why aren't issues, etc., part of the repo and so pulled (optionally) to duplicate repos. Shouldn't web front ends be views of federated content -- having issues in one git web front-end not get propagated to others for the same project is surely a major flaw.

newnewpdro8y ago

Yes, but for-profit corporations like github aren't exactly incentivized to build their service that way.

captn3m08y ago

Gitea was working on it, last I remember.

pc868y ago

TIL not accepting PRs and issues on every platform is "hostile."

always_good8y ago

Disabling issues can feel hostile, though I understand why large projects might do it because idiots abuse the system.

But when I go to a project on Github to report an issue and I can't, then I can't help but think "well fuck you too."

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jarfil8y ago· 3 in thread

You know git is distributed? You can keep all your repos both on GitLab, GitHub, as many local machines as you want... etc. all at the same time.

18nleung8y ago

Most orgs like having a single source of truth for their projects, though (for instance, the Linux kernel GitHub repo is simply a mirror). In fact, if anything, this project could set up mirroring so repos are mirrored from GitLab to GitHub, etc.

palunon8y ago

But then, the Linux kernel really have multiple sources of truth, depending on what version you are talking about (Linus branch, mainline, vendor forks, etc)

The main point isn't about the source code, it's about all the rest : bug report, discussions, planning..

arfar8y ago

I think is more about the political statement of leaving GitHub rather than the practicalities of code management.

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