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by tpmoney 883 days ago
While I can understand the annoyance at the change, if your perspective is that GitHub is just a server for a .git directory then why even bother with accessing it via a web browser in the first place. The git cli seems like it should be both more than sufficient in that case and preferable since it’s much less resource intensive and designed for the purpose.

For sure there is a discussion to be had about whether the addons that GitHub provides over and above being a server for a .git directory need JavaScript, but that feels like a different discussion than “it’s just a server for .git directories”

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When working in a team, having a lightweight shared git remote for sources is super handy. For instance Gerrit, or what uses Google (Critique I think it’s called). For sure these services have a little bit of JS for things such as code reviews, but they’re useable without any.