[aprilnya]

„I don’t use any of GitHub’s non-git features, so if you use them you have a problem”

[m-ee]

He’s pretty obviously referring to the extreme emotional reaction Hashimoto had, not his choice to use a different git solution

[joombaga]

Who are you quoting?

[dspillett]

That was paraphrasing, rather than quoting.

The post being replied to essentially said “I don't use the features that have been regularly broken in recent times, or where the features I do use [core git] were broken it luckily didn't affect me, so anyone thinking of leaving has a mental problem”.

Or to paraphrase the old joke:

Q: How many programmers does it take to change a lightbulb?

A: The sunlight through the windows here is working fine, if you can't see where you are that must be a “you” problem.

[ulbu]

"Writing software doesn't require GitHub". Well, if they do not need whatever is specific to github and claim that someone who sorely lacks these features has a mental problem...

[codingdave]

To be fair, the author of the post said the same thing. From the other thread on HN, they themselves said: "Nobody should cry over a SaaS, of all things. But GitHub has meant so much more to me than that (all laid out in the post). I have an unhealthy relationship with it. "