GitHub 404 errors

10 minutes ago, I saw that there were no posts on hackernews, so I thought something was up with me. 10 minutes later, I am vindicated

Is everyone laid off???

Yeah thought I was fired and could start my long holiday. But this just means I have a excuse to start my weekend early.

Me too! Scared the crap out of me.

Yep, thought I had been fired when I couldn't access the repo anymore lol

I was editing a wiki page, and the UI started telling me that someone else had edited the page and that I should refresh (refreshing resulted in the same message in short order). I'm the only maintainer!

I have a doco change to make. I just need to paste it into the browser editor and do a PR. Can't do push or pr right now.

git pull fails to work. The code you checked in last night and now are wanting to pull to your “copy sitting on your computer” can no longer happen, rendering your local copy stale. Do you work on stale code? Accessing code could also refer to them in their roles: maybe they are DevOps and their job is to wire up pipelines to deploy spaghetti to a giant furball k8s environment and they can’t because they can’t access their code.

Don’t be obtuse.

What does your company do that you don't have Github or some equivalent centralization, such as Gitlab, self-hosted or not?

For the rest of us, Github (/etc.) is our primary means of transferring branches, a centralized "main" branch, and sometimes where CI/builds/test happen, as well as deployments. This isn't even bizarre … I've worked at 6+ companies now, and 100% of them followed this pattern. (Not all with Github, but they all had some centralized place to push/pull code and conduct reviews, tests, deployments…)

(I'd entertain the usual "is self-hosted worth it?" argument that tends to crop up in these threads. But this question is a bit off the wall.)

I can still commit to my local repository, of course, but at some point, I am going to need to share my work with coworkers or with production. During a normal day, that's several times per day, as features/branches are done & go out for review & merging…

Projects were at a real sweet-spot a couple years back. Milestones were great, between that and tags you could do everything you really needed to without a bunch of time-wasting fake-productive crap getting in the way like they do on "full featured" task trackers. Easy to navigate, easy to use, hard to lose stuff (am I the only one who's constantly losing stuff in other task tracking systems?)

Not that I was ever successful in getting anyone other than programmers to use it, though. Which I guess is why they made it worse, to try to court the kind of people who like Jira and Asana and Azure Devops (what a terrible name) and all that junk.

I knew it.

Oh my good gravy it IS Friday. What the heck happened to the week?!

should I ship today??

> All my work code is unreachable

Uhm, you, uhm, do know how to use git right. You have a copy of all of your code on your computer.

Someone in IT is immediately asking that someone who never cleans up their local branches bring their laptop over to make a complete backup