{"id":23236,"date":"2018-10-29T16:30:13","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T20:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=23236"},"modified":"2018-10-29T16:30:13","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T20:30:13","slug":"the-early-days-of-github","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/29\/the-early-days-of-github\/","title":{"rendered":"The Early Days of GitHub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heavybit.com\/library\/podcasts\/enterpriseready\/ep-2-the-early-days-of-github-with-tom-preston-werner\/\">EnterpriseReady Podcast<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=18258148\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.heavybit.com\/library\/podcasts\/enterpriseready\/ep-2-the-early-days-of-github-with-tom-preston-werner\/\"><p>In episode 2 of EnterpriseReady, Grant chats with Tom Preston-Werner about how the open source company he co-founded, GitHub, rose up to become an essential coding resource for developers everywhere.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>As we approached all of the enterprise problems, we take it from that approach, we were learning what enterprises needed at the time. Like I said before, I hadn&rsquo;t ever made software for enterprises. I had no idea what features they wanted.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>That choice is one that everyone&rsquo;s faced with which is, &ldquo;Do we create a fork of our repository and build enterprise features there? Because we don&rsquo;t need them in the SaaS products, so let&rsquo;s not complicate the SaaS product with them. We&rsquo;ll build those features in the enterprise model only, and then we&rsquo;ll port all of the new stuff from the SaaS model into the enterprise codebase. Because Git can do that. It&rsquo;s good at merging stuff.&rdquo; So that&rsquo;s what we did, we had a separate repository.<\/p><p>We forked off GitHub.com SaaS model repository, and new enterprise features went in there. We hired a person specifically to do this merge process, which was a thankless horrible task, and we did it for a while and it was just extremely slow. Merging is not amazing, ever. If you have conflicts it&rsquo;s a nightmare. It&rsquo;s a never-ending nightmare.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EnterpriseReady Podcast (via Hacker News): In episode 2 of EnterpriseReady, Grant chats with Tom Preston-Werner about how the open source company he co-founded, GitHub, rose up to become an essential coding resource for developers everywhere.[&#8230;]As we approached all of the enterprise problems, we take it from that approach, we were learning what enterprises needed at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2018-10-29T20:30:15Z","apple_news_api_id":"6e55fc8e-70db-4b81-9ed8-0d2b6b0ecee9","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2018-10-29T20:30:16Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AblX8jnDbS4Ge2A0raw7O6Q","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[101,377,524,295,286,287,376,96],"class_list":["post-23236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-business","tag-git","tag-github","tag-history","tag-interview","tag-ruby","tag-versioncontrol","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23237,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23236\/revisions\/23237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}