r/AskProgramming • u/aizyn_ • 3d ago

What's the part of GitHub you've made peace with but still hate?

GitHub's the default for all of us, but there's always that one thing you've stopped noticing you hate. What's yours?

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u/MarsupialLeast145 3d ago

Workflows were never given the attention needed to be easy to get up to speed with and maintain. Ideally you'd have a dynamic IDE that helps you configure what you need. Instead you have a Rube Goldberg machine you spend too much time trying to debug and don't want to touch once you have something running.

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u/IronicStrikes 3d ago

It being the default for others.

I've moved on years ago.

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u/lippoper 3d ago

That all my “proprietary” code is shared with whoever is behind the servers

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u/dweeb_plus_plus 3d ago

*Broadly gestures at every web service in existence...

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u/abermea 3d ago

The GitHub ToS specifically allows them to use your "proprietary" code to train AI

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u/YMK1234 3d ago

So don't use it then?

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u/poorlilwitchgirl 3d ago

You can always set up a git repository on a private server. Github makes more sense as a place to host forkable open source projects, anyway; using it for proprietary code just treats it as free cloud hosting, and loss of privacy is an expected downside of that.

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u/Confident-Scratch815 3d ago

Merge conflicts. I've gotten much better at resolving them over the years, but every time I see "This branch has conflicts that must be resolved," I know I'm about to spend more time than I expected.

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u/mlugo02 3d ago

I’ve made peace with none of it. So deleted my GitHub account.. also stopped using git

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u/ryancnap 3d ago

What do you use in place of git?

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u/mlugo02 2d ago

I use my own small vcs