This screenshot is old (at least 12 years).
Part of me is bothered by those explanations, but if I had to explain GitHub to a tech illiterate grandparent with that much screen space I don’t know if I would do much better.
Repository: a collection of computer code for a software program (or app if you insist).
Fork: a copy of a repository so you can edit it without affecting the original.
Pull request: a request to the owner of a repo to bring in some changes you made in a fork.
I think I even got the word count down.
Repository: your code.
Fork: my code.
Pull request: u want my code?
in a *branch?
What do trees have to do with computers?
Why even bother explaining those terms if you only have that much screen space.
Repository: a collection of related computer code, like related files in a filing cabinet
Fork: a copy of a repository at a certain point in time, like a fork in the road, they diverge from that point
Pull request: a request that a repository owner incorporate your changes into their files.
I’m surprised they didn’t sneak in a swipe about open source being a socialist conspiracy to undermine American ingenuity.
This physically hurts me.
“forked” when you push broken code to prod at 5 on a Friday.
“CI” - “Come In” which is what your boss says when they ask for a meeting after you thought it was fine for that one line change to skip CI and it broke something
It doesn’t matter. None of faux news viewers can read.
And people say LLMs will degrade our collective knowledge lol
they both will
“reposotory”
What the hell? If they just asked ChatGPT it would have been much better:
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Repository: A folder of project files on the internet.
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Fork: Your own copy of that folder to make changes.
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Pull Request: A way to ask, “Can my changes go back into the original folder?”
To be fair ChatGPT didn’t exist 12 years ago.
Oh yeah, I overlooked that detail.
Spell-check did though.
The Fox News intern probably didn’t need a ton of water and the energy of a small country just to be trained, though.
*reposortory(sic)
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If these were answers for a high school test it would get a D or something for correctness. I can’t believe an adult, a journalist no less, could be so off.
Its a bit charitable to call fox news journalists.
At least they didn’t call it a suppository.
“GitHub just reached its 1 billionth suppository!!”
“Hopefully it will help with shit. Let’s talk to the originating author, Aasish Pokhrel.”
shit init
Why is the headline in quotes?
Because of “reasons”
Because trashy people never saw Austin Powers and updated their use of quotation marks to denote sarcasm.
Quotation marks were historically used to add emphasis to text, the way asterisks are used today. Old people who refuse to change and don’t realize their way of writing is actively making fun of themselves still use them this way. These are also the people who watch Fox.
Quotation marks we’re historically used …
Meh. I am in my late sixties, and that was never proper usage. These people were merely always illiterate.
It’s valid usage if you go waaay back, i.e. centuries. You also see it in some late 19th/early 20th century newsprint and ads.
“Scare quotes” definitely precede Austin Powers, though that may have spurred a rise in popularity of the usage. (Also, “trashy people never saw Austin Powers” is honestly a pretty weird statement, IMO.)
That said, in this case, arguably the quotes are appropriate, because “the github dictionary” isn’t something that happened (i.e. a headline), but a thing they’ve made up.
Yeah, there was a whole Chris Farley bit with them. So you can figure where the end point of that is.
Like most stuff with Mike Meyers, by the time he included it, it was kind of cringe.
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Then it should be THE GITHUB “DICTIONARY.”
No, because the thing they are naming is “The Github Dictionary”; they’re not applying scare-quotes to the word “dictionary” implying that what they’ve written is not really a “dictionary”.
Scare quotes are used informally, but it’s not proper usage like a “news” channel should be doing. Which, fair enough, it’s Fox “News.” But it’s already larger text and all caps - why is more emphasis necessary?
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At least chat gpt would have spelled it right for fucks sake.
Did they let a 6 year old write that up?
THEY GET PAID TO DO THIS. SOMEONE GETS PAID TO CHECK IT TOO.
Or am I being trolled.
You know how scam emails intentionally include mistakes because they want to filter out smart people? Same idea.
Reasonably smart people will see this and go “this is garbage”. The idiots will go deeper, and become loyal gop voters.
Yeah this is about the comprehension level I’d expect from a typical Comm major lol.
Woah. Things were different, at least 12 years ago.
Forked: when you dongle a repo and create a clone
Commit: when you marry said code because the clone is yours
