Re: (forw) [GoLugTech] Microsoft buys GitHub

Rick Moen writes:
> Quoting Akkana Peck ([email protected]):
> 
> > But there's another reason that might sound silly or morbid: the
> > idea that the code might live on at least for a while after I'm
> > gone, whereas my personal website will disappear as soon as I stop
> > paying the bills and maintaining the server. Not that I'm expecting
> > that to happen any time soon, but you never know, and I like
> > knowing that the code is distributed on sites besides my own.
> 
> _Surely_ self-hosting your data doesn't in any way preclude it from being
> distributed on sites beside your own.  In fact, distributed version
> control makes that easy.

Oh, certainly. I could have code in both places, and I do still have
copies of some things on my website. But I use github as the place
where the latest/master version lives, and since that's publicly
available I don't try to mirror the latest version between github
and my own server. In fact, I've had enough trouble just pulling and
pushing git repositories, trying to persuade git to preserve all the
branches (git seems to much prefer that you only sync one branch at
a time), that I wonder how much effort it would take to get a bunch
of mirrors automated so they weren't a lot of extra work. I do see
that a search for "git mirror repo" is finding some hits, so maybe
that sort of thing has gotten easier since I last looked.

        ...Akkana