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steaksauce

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Oh. My. God. We have to stop people from using this if they dont want their software to be automatically open sources! Warn everyone with a private repo now!
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goeranh

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I mean this is imortant for all the people using a self-hosted solution as well...
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steaksauce

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@goeranh holy shit. The software world has just been upended.
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Codex404

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Good old CVS keeps my code private :)
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goeranh

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@Codex404 I just swiched to having a hundred seperate folders, all copies of each others, with a timestamp as the foldername🤔
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steaksauce

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@Codex404 we still use CVS for DNS zone files, Apache configs, nagios configs, and certs
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Codex404

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@steaksauce wait its actually still in use?
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steaksauce

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@Codex404 unfortunately
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beggarboy

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HOW DO OTHER COMPANIES DO THIS?
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electrineer

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It's always great to learn something new
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JhonDoe

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welp, back in my student days, there was a teacher that told us that using postgres made that very thing. :)

so git is the new postgres, cool!
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steaksauce

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@JhonDoe we are using open source mysql at my current job. Does that mean that all of our customers' ecommerce data is open source?!
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JhonDoe

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@steaksauce of course it is, run! let's go to... oracle? or for that matter, let's devolve to ms access
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ergusto

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@steaksauce that's weak sauce dude
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goeranh

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@filthyranter
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PAKA

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Bro better don't tell him that Linux is open source too, he's gonna think that running Linux server open sources everything on it.
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Maer

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It's only open for members of my secret GitGud order.

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