There’s plenty of git forges that aren’t GitHub. Git itself has nothing to do with central servers and can theoretically be used in a completely decentralized manner.
At college some guys were self hosting a git server for a project but it went down. We resorted to a USB stick that acted as remote and was passed around. That was awesome to see, for about a day…
Heck yeah, git is a Swiss army knife for versioning all kinds of things beyond programming repos.
Outside of work, I’ve been using git in local “working” or “sandbox” directories on my personal machines for ages where I do everything. Just have an alias to quickly stage and commit with simple search tags in the commit message, and only move out copies of documents, spreadsheets, 3d printing projects, video and image edits, songs and tabs, etc. after I get them to their “final” point. It’s been a lifesaver for recovering disastrous program crashes that can corrupt files, on more than a few occasions.
Speaking from experience, in the past year, I’ve used 3 different hosting providers for git repositories at work. Only one of them is GitHub. It’s good to keep your options open - git isn’t locked to any particular provider, after all.
Changed, but why Git but not GitHub for version control:
Because “Git” is the technology. GitHub is just one site that works with it.
I see, I thought Git and GitHub are not one and the same.
There’s plenty of git forges that aren’t GitHub. Git itself has nothing to do with central servers and can theoretically be used in a completely decentralized manner.
Understood.
You could use the git icon instead of the github icon.
Yeah, I’d recommend so. Otherwise, it might look like you don’t know the difference between Git and GitHub, which a software developer should.
Thanks big bro.
At college some guys were self hosting a git server for a project but it went down. We resorted to a USB stick that acted as
remoteand was passed around. That was awesome to see, for about a day…Lol. Git itself can act as a server over the git protocol. Might have been easier 🤪
Heck yeah, git is a Swiss army knife for versioning all kinds of things beyond programming repos.
Outside of work, I’ve been using git in local “working” or “sandbox” directories on my personal machines for ages where I do everything. Just have an alias to quickly stage and commit with simple search tags in the commit message, and only move out copies of documents, spreadsheets, 3d printing projects, video and image edits, songs and tabs, etc. after I get them to their “final” point. It’s been a lifesaver for recovering disastrous program crashes that can corrupt files, on more than a few occasions.
Also if you go with git instead of github you should use git’s icon
Agreed, here you go:
Speaking from experience, in the past year, I’ve used 3 different hosting providers for git repositories at work. Only one of them is GitHub. It’s good to keep your options open - git isn’t locked to any particular provider, after all.