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We had an intern push code that shall never be released publicly to a public repository after we asked him to "push it to our gitlab server". He just assumed there was only one gitlab server and it was the public one, I guess.

That was a bit shocking to me. I started with local VCS only all the way up through school and work.

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You should assume that developers, especially interns know nothing about any technology until they had a thorough introduction. And you should anticipate any confusion they may have in the process.

Once, I had to introduce most of the employees of a company to git and git hosting. They were trained from scratch to use git reasonably on the first day. Use of code hosts were taught only on the second day. They were taught hands-on on our internal host and on public server. None of them had any confusion over differences among git and different git hosts. While they did make some mistakes afterwards, none of those were based on total misconceptions.

Yes, it was a learning experience.

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