Comment by keybored
2 years ago
People are so preoccupied with putting the code on GitHub. It’s like it doesn’t exist before it’s on GitHub.
If you’re not gonna share it then it hardly matters. Use a backup drive.
Git is distributed. You don’t have to put your dotfiles on GitHub. Local is enough.
Your laptop breaks in a way that your disk cannot be recovered. Now what? How often are you backing up your disk? Probably much easier to type "git commit" and "git push"
It's much easier to use an automated backup system/service than to manually run commands.
Thanks. That’s what I was too (flabbergasted?) to express myself in such a succinct way.
Am I really gonna get interrogated on HN for talking about automatic and redundant backup give me a break.
I wouldn't call the parent comment you're responding to an "interrogation" and I'm sorry you perceived it that way. You make a pretty extraordinary claim that local disk is better than a remote repository for storing/updating code for personal work - with no evidence to support this claim - so a followup question seems reasonable.
as far as "git is distributed" I don't know if that's the case if you keep it purely local, but hey, you seem to have it all figured out so good job.
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