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GitHub leaving git. What does it mean for nix? (alien.top)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I am new to nixOS. I hear github is moving away from git. Will nixOS be able to pull from it still or will we just lose access to every flake on github at once?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Why should GitHub move away from git? It's even in their name.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I really wonder how fake news like that is created, that doesn't make any sense.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think it's just a misinterpretation of GitHub's recent "GitHub was founded on Git, now it's re-founded on Copilot" press release

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

That would be an extremely wild interpretation

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It will just become Hub.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

What happens if they move away from hub? Will we be left just staring into a blank void?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

GitHub leaving git? What would they do, force you to use some other version control system of their own invention? It's just a weird techbro push for "more AI", their version control stuff is not likely to change much.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

What does this even mean, it's called GitHub, not Hub.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

To answer your question; nix can survive just fine without Github. It would be a pain for sure, but thanks to overrides, even if someone doesn't update their flake, you can effectively update it for them by overriding the fetch tools and having them redirect the calls to github to somewhere else.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Really living up to your username ;)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Apparently I got fake news'd

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Not fake news, just some marketing stuff. As far as the gh command (GitHub CLI), that’s more for GitHub specific things like creating pull requests from the command line rather than GitHub.com. It’s just a wrapper for the GitHub API