• cobra89@beehaw.org
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    11 months ago

    Git = bittorrent

    GitHub = the pirate bay

    Code = content

    Even that’s not the perfect analogy but it’s better than the OP.

  • purelynonfunctional@programming.dev
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    11 months ago

    It’s not, though. Git is a means of distributing content, not the content itself. The thing analogous to PornHub’s porn on GitHub is the source code in the repos hosted there, not Git itself.

    • merc@sh.itjust.works
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      11 months ago

      Git is a DVCS. GitHub is a place where DVCS repositories are hosted. There are many other places where DVCS repositories can be hosted, but GitHub is the most famous one… Porn is a type of content. PornHub is a place where porn is hosted. There are many other places where porn can be hosted, but PornHub is the most famous one. It’s a pretty good analogy.

      • dan@upvote.au
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        11 months ago

        There are many other places where DVCS repositories can be hosted

        I mean… Everyone that’s cloned the repo has a full copy of it. You could clone it directly off someone else if you wanted to.

        • merc@sh.itjust.works
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          11 months ago

          Sure… and you could pass around porn on thumb drives. But, having a central website where you can browse public repos and clone the interesting ones is a pretty key part of Open Source / Free Software development.

  • merc@sh.itjust.works
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    11 months ago

    A key difference:

    If you rely too much on PornHub, you’re never going to get fucked.

    If you rely too much on GitHub, you’re eventually going to get fucked.