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China is attempting to mirror the entire GitHub over to their own servers, users report (infosec.exchange)

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GitCode, a git-hosting website operated Chongqing Open-Source Co-Creation Technology Co Ltd and with technical support from CSDN and Huawei Cloud.

It is being reported that many users' repository are being cloned and re-hosted on GitCode without explicit authorization.

There is also a thread on Ycombinator (archived link)

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[-] JTskulk@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

I hope they copy the web interface too. I stopped using GitHub for my dumb little projects when Microsoft bought them and I can't be bothered to learn git. I will gladly host my future projects there if it's good.

[-] AnxiousOtter@lemmy.world 20 points 4 months ago

I can't be bothered to learn git.

How to become unemployable as an engineer 101.

[-] JTskulk@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

I'm not an engineer and I am employed, I do a little scripting for fun. Software developers should learn how to use git but I'm not one :)

[-] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 18 points 4 months ago

What use is Github / a Github clone to you without knowing git?

[-] Landless2029@lemmy.world 15 points 4 months ago

*self hosts gitlab with docker run

*still doesn't know git

':confused jackie:'

[-] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 4 points 4 months ago

So what are you using it for? (Not criticizing, genuinely curious)

[-] cmhe@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Generally, I tend to think more in the direction of that there is some misunderstanding happening, then people being stupid. Maybe that is just the optimist in me.

What exactly is meant when people say they don't know git. Do they mean the repository data format? Do they mean the network protocol? Do they mean the command line utility? Or just how to work with git as a developer, which is similar to other vcs?

I think if you use some git gui, you can get very far, without needing to understand "git", which I would argue most people, that use it daily, don't, at least not fully.

[-] JTskulk@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

I don't understand all 3 :)

[-] JTskulk@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

The web interface is great and easy to use. I liked just dragging and dropping updated files to it, very simple.

[-] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 1 points 4 months ago

Oh, didn't even know you could do that, lol

[-] exu@feditown.com 3 points 4 months ago

Relevant

[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

%100 me when I first started github: "welp its saying something I dont understand, time to nuke the local copy and restart"

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