Mainly open source stuff. Chromium, Android, etc.
https://opensource.google/projects
I think all of those are using git and many Gerrit as well.
Readit NewsThere is a 3rd group (probably mostly gamedevs) who think it seems like a great idea and really want to try it, but are blocked waiting for git-lfs support.
Every time jujutsu pops back up on HN I check to see if they've added it yet. Not yet! But they are slowly getting there:
Maybe they need perforce support instead :P
tex0 commented on The Ingredients of a Productive Monorepo blog.swgillespie.me/posts... · Posted by u/mifydev
It's mostly about read/access permissions. I'd like to stay away from any type of git hook tbh
Gerrit can do some of that.
tex0 commented on The Ingredients of a Productive Monorepo blog.swgillespie.me/posts... · Posted by u/mifydev
Is there a way to set permissions on certain directories / force partial clones.
Not just a sparse clone.
That depends on your VCS. Some systems don't even allow you to "clone" anything. And yes, some of them enforce all kinds of ACLs.
That is pretty much what I'm doing with Steam, Proton and my Game Library. 99% the time it works just great.
tex0 commented on Feds Link Cyberheist to 2022 LastPass Hacks krebsonsecurity.com/2025/... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
To how many non-SWE members of your family could you say 'here is the Netflix password, you can decrypt it with gpg', and have them be like 'ah yes, let me just `man gpg` this will be no problem'?
Probably zero. And strike the non-SWE part. gpg isn't really easy to use.
tex0 commented on How Core Git Developers Configure Git blog.gitbutler.com/how-gi... · Posted by u/lnkl
Should create an XKCD with “There is always n+1 Git client GUI”.
EVERY new employee arrives saying “Hey I’ve found this great UI for git, this one really nails it and makes git easy” and every time it’s a new Git UI that I’ve never heard of. It’s the “hello world” of startups: Creat their great git UI and publish it.
Then they commit with the default crappy commit messages and they don’t know how to git-rebase-i.
Maybe git is just too complicated for average users (myself included).
Also Github is a fantastic tool for searching code across repos, ones you may not even have cloned yet! Either public ones or org ones.
The new GitHub CS is pretty great indeed. Still not on par with it's role model, but getting closer.
tex0 commented on Xz format inadequate for long-term archiving (2016) nongnu.org/lzip/xz_inadeq... · Posted by u/oriettaxx
This article is originally from 2016, not from 2022, as has also been pointed out when it was last posted circa 11 hours ago.
2024: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39868810
2022: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32210438
2019: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20103255
2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16884832
2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12768425
It is utterly unrelated to the ongoing issue (which I'm 100% sure is the reason this is on the front page for a second time within 12 hours right now).
The author is also the developer of lzip, while it does have some valid points, one should apply a necessary level of skepticism ("Competitors product is really bad and unfit", says vendor).
Thank you for reposting. I don't want to start bashing XZ, but I honestly wonder why it's been picked up so much despite the valid criticism.
As if the compression rate increase at medium levels were so significant over bzip2 or grip.
Some critique is definitely valid, but some of it just sounds like they didn't take the time to grasp the language. It's trade offs all the way. For example there is a lot I like about Rust, but still no my favorite language.