github skills?

[bruce]

Hi Karl.

Right you are. Having a reasonable grasp of the underlying tech/basis
is usually a good step to using toolsets built on top of the stack!

Thanks for the input!



On Sun, Jan 28, 2024 at 7:26 PM Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 2024-01-28 at 12:29 -0500, bruce wrote:
> > I'm walking through a couple of test sites..
>
> Just a quick warning that git is not GitHub and GitHub is not git.
>
> Git is the underlying basis for GitHub, but GitHub layers a LOT of
> extra stuff on top of it, basically a very large value-add.
>
> I strongly suggest getting a good grasp of git itself before you get
> too used to using GitHub. Otherwise you will find yourself floundering
> if you have to change repositories and start using GitLab, or
> CodeCommit or CodeBerg or whatever, because they all do things a bit
> differently.
>
> For a professional, getting too cosy with one repo type is a form of
> lock-in. For example, if you have all your deployments tied into GitHub
> actions, you will find it that much harder to move when Microsoft
> (which owns GitHub) inevitably jacks up the prices or imposes new
> conditions.
>
> The same is true of local "helpers" like VSCode, GitHub Desktop and so
> forth. Figure out how native git works first. Then make life easier
> with such helpers.
>
> Regards, K.
>
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