• meow
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    9011 months ago

    I don’t open source my code bc I don’t understand git

    • @nastyyboi
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      4611 months ago

      So, you don’t “git it”?

      I’ll escort myself out.

    • Victoria
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      1811 months ago

      it’s just linked lists of commits (except when merging)

        • @[email protected]
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          2011 months ago

          In internet terms: It’s just a soyjak holding a box with data who is pointing at another soyjak holding a box with data who is pointing at another {insert N-3 of the same soyjaks} soyjak with a box with data without an arm to point with

          • ibk
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            511 months ago

            I don’t understand what a soyjak is.

                • Victoria
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                  511 months ago

                  each commit points to the one before. additionally a commit stores which lines in which files changed compared to the previous commit. a branch points to a particular commit.

    • @[email protected]
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      511 months ago

      There’s a guy out there who made a reversible NES emulator, meaning it can run games backwards and come to the correct state. He made a brilliant post on Reddit /r/programming linking his ideas for the emulator to quantum mechanics.

      Then he was asked why he didn’t distribute his program in git. He said that he didn’t know git.

      To me, that’s a pretty good example of the difference between computer science and software engineering.

    • xigoi
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      111 months ago

      You can open source your code just by uploading it on some kind of cloud storage and setting it as publicly available.