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by irishcoffee 79 days ago
Github actions needs to go away. Git, in the linux mantra, is a tool written to do one job very well. Productizing it, bolting shit onto the sides of it, and making it more than it should be was/is a giant mistake.

The whole "just because we could doesn't mean we should" quote applies here.
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lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 79 days ago
The same philosophy would suggest that running some other command immediately following a particular (successful) git command is fine; it is composing relatively simple programs into a greater system. Other than the common security pitfalls of the former, said philosophy has no issue with using (for example) Jenkins instead of Actions.
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psini 79 days ago
But GitHub actions is not Git?
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irishcoffee 78 days ago
Sorry yes, that was my point. GitHub turned git into some dysmorphic DVCS version of c++ on the web. Git is fine. Maybe 10% of people use plain git, it’d all wrapped in shitty web apps. Let git be git, and let ci/cd be ci/cd, the way Linux intended.

However, I don’t work on web apps. Maybe it’s better for the JavaScript folks. I hope to never write a line of js in my lifetime.

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