#general
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enough-analyst-54434
10/02/2015, 1:54 AMall CI's should run off patches from users machines, not origin, etc - e
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10/02/2015, 1:54 AMbasically origin should be written to by CI - e
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10/02/2015, 1:54 AMand that's it - b
bored-art-40741
10/02/2015, 1:54 AMThere's only so much benefit you get from that though - e
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10/02/2015, 1:54 AMno user pulls from it directly - e
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10/02/2015, 1:55 AMAgreed - b
bored-art-40741
10/02/2015, 1:55 AM@most-cricket-96651 made a good point that git is federated rather than distributed - e
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10/02/2015, 1:55 AMhowever, no-one bothers to setup runway by dealing with this in early scale days - e
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10/02/2015, 1:55 AMno doubt buys you 1 year + - b
bored-art-40741
10/02/2015, 1:55 AMYeah - b
bored-art-40741
10/02/2015, 1:56 AMThat being said, I think we (at 4sq) would benefit a lot from more upstream discipline - b
bored-art-40741
10/02/2015, 1:56 AMDead refs are expensive - b
bored-art-40741
10/02/2015, 1:57 AMAnd I don't even want to talk about the infamous pushing of a branch with the same name as a commit SHA - a
ancient-stone-50795
10/02/2015, 1:57 AMWe just got rid of a bunch of ours (and stopped our process of generating new ones) - a
ancient-stone-50795
10/02/2015, 1:57 AMomg - b
bored-art-40741
10/02/2015, 1:57 AMWhich is basically like feeding your entire network of upstream + users rat poison - e
enough-analyst-54434
10/02/2015, 1:58 AM@ancient-stone-50795: partly sharded servers for user backups aka branches - yes - e
enough-analyst-54434
10/02/2015, 1:58 AMBut also really branches should just be local - e
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10/02/2015, 1:58 AMthe backup case can be handled otherwise - e
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10/02/2015, 1:59 AMthan a push - e
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10/02/2015, 1:59 AMFor example, at Twitter at least - each branch is backed up 2x, RB and some origin - b
bored-art-40741
10/02/2015, 1:59 AMShared branches are valuable - e
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10/02/2015, 1:59 AMShared pathches? - b
bored-art-40741
10/02/2015, 1:59 AMBut origin isn't where they should live - e
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10/02/2015, 1:59 AMYET ANOTHER THING GOOGLE DID RIGHT - e
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10/02/2015, 1:59 AMyou could ssh to any other users machine - e
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10/02/2015, 2:00 AMno need to push a damn thing! - e
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10/02/2015, 2:00 AMpull from users - b
bored-art-40741
10/02/2015, 2:00 AMEh, I see how it's possible, but I don't buy that it's the right workflow - b
bored-art-40741
10/02/2015, 2:00 AMIf we had MagicFS where you just cd into the right hash, sure