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0 pointsdpark4y ago0 comments

The term “GitHub flow” existed prior to the Microsoft acquisition. The GitHub documentation history would be definitive, but you can find articles dating back to 2014 discussing GitHub Flow vs GitFlow. The acquisition was in 2018.

I agree that the name isn’t the best. It is however at least specific. “Trunk based development” encompasses a class of development processes. Although I don’t think I’ve ever actually described a real world process as “GitHub Flow” because almost no one knows what it specifically is anyway.

Disclosure: I work for Microsoft.

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CRConrad4y ago

Still just a cringey excuse to attach a trademark to a common practice, only sans the "Microsoft".

(OK, "git flow" was in a way even worse; that was Atlassian trying to usurp the generic "git" name for their own particular flow.)

dparkOP4y ago

> Still just a cringey excuse to attach a trademark to a common practice, only sans the "Microsoft".

I don't understand any of this sentence. Of course it's "sans Microsoft". It predated the acquisition by years.

But also I don't see the "cringe" here. "GitHub flow" was introduced as "this is what we do at GitHub". It is (or at least was?) the GitHib flow. https://githubflow.github.io/

> OK, "git flow" was in a way even worse; that was Atlassian trying to usurp the generic "git" name for their own particular flow.

Atlassian didn't even create GitFlow. https://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/

I don't understand this mindset that starts with assuming everyone is essentially a bad actor.

CRConrad4y ago

> I don't understand this mindset that starts with assuming everyone is essentially a bad actor.

It's pretty hilarious how some people use "I don't understand..." to imply that whatever it is they don't understand is bad, apparently completely oblivious to how it actually speaks more to their own powers of comprehension.

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0 pointsdpark4y ago0 comments

Disclosure: I work for Microsoft.

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CRConrad4y ago

Still just a cringey excuse to attach a trademark to a common practice, only sans the "Microsoft".

(OK, "git flow" was in a way even worse; that was Atlassian trying to usurp the generic "git" name for their own particular flow.)

dparkOP4y ago

> Still just a cringey excuse to attach a trademark to a common practice, only sans the "Microsoft".

I don't understand any of this sentence. Of course it's "sans Microsoft". It predated the acquisition by years.

But also I don't see the "cringe" here. "GitHub flow" was introduced as "this is what we do at GitHub". It is (or at least was?) the GitHib flow. https://githubflow.github.io/

> OK, "git flow" was in a way even worse; that was Atlassian trying to usurp the generic "git" name for their own particular flow.

Atlassian didn't even create GitFlow. https://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/

I don't understand this mindset that starts with assuming everyone is essentially a bad actor.

CRConrad4y ago

> I don't understand this mindset that starts with assuming everyone is essentially a bad actor.

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