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GitHub Service Outage (github.com)

Posted by whipslash on from the technical-difficulties dept.

New submitter thebigjeff writes: Beginning at around 7:30pm EST on 1/27/2016, GitHub's core services have been offline. Most repositories and other functionality is inaccessible. The status page is calling it a "significant network disruption." More from The Register: GitHub falls offline, devs worldwide declare today a snow day.

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  1. MMMMMM.. how about that mother fucking cloud? by Rinikusu · · Score: 5, Funny

    maybe they should've backed up their cloud in another cloud. Cloud.

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  2. Decentralized source control by manu0601 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The selling point of git was to be a decentralized source control system.

    It is interesting to see people telling about a snow day while they have a tool that do not require a central repository

    1. Re:Decentralized source control by sunderland56 · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Even if you are using a source control system that *does* require a central repository to be up: since when did the inability to check in prevent you from writing and debugging code? If interacting with git/svn/clearcase/etc. is more than 0.1% of your work day, maybe you're not doing it right.

      If source control being inaccessible means you get the day off.... let's just say that ClearCase users would be extremely happy.

    2. Re:Decentralized source control by sunderland56 · · Score: 5, Insightful

      So: no incoming bugs or feature requests, no merging other people's code, nobody pinging you every 5 minutes? Around here that's called "a day where I can be productive".

    3. Re: Decentralized source control by bill_mcgonigle · · Score: 4, Funny

      And if all fails, update the documentation.

      Github mostly hosts open source projects.

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