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…And I'm a lot more cynical about thinking GitHub fundamentals might ever get any better. [1] https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/1368

comment by jomar · 2026-04-29 · in Ghostty is leaving GitHub

…as merged when you rebased or squashed them (a feature request which is now in middle school: https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/2 ) > PRs are hardly latency sensitive, so polling a REST API once every 60 seconds seems acceptable to…

comment by masklinn · 2025-06-11 · in Bypassing GitHub Actions policies in the dumbest way possible

…names when merging via the UI buttons like "Squash and Merge" in 2018 and then again in 2019. See < https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/1368 > for the tedious details. Essentially the post-2019 behaviour seems to be that where possible…

comment by jomar · 2023-10-16 · in Organizing multiple Git identities

…the accounts corresponding to PR commits, PR creator, and PR merger all differ -- see for example < https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/1368 >.)

comment by jomar · 2023-10-16 · in Organizing multiple Git identities

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GitHub prevents crawling of repository's Wiki pages – no Google search

story by bondarchuk · 2023-09-01 · 2 comments

…https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/z14tt2/reason_why_op... https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/167 http://web.archive.org/web/20221217180915/http://antirez.com... > But I don’t see how the GPL is a viable solution

comment by B8MGHCBekDuRi · 2023-02-14 · in Reimplementing the Coreutils in a modern language (Rust)

…have stabilized it at some point. Here is an old issue before GitHub had a community issue tracker: https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/1483 I am glad this is getting more attention, maybe now github will finally have a stable endpoint…

comment by Aissen · 2023-01-31 · in Git archive checksums may change

Hello, I see you stepped on my favourite personal soapbox! :) https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/1017 I really, really like semi-linear branching/merging. I.e. always rebase-merging, but with a merge commit. Reasons, in comparison to…

comment by black_puppydog · 2022-08-05 · in Keeping a project bisectable

…since the update, but clicking this link will show a 404 as the old HEAD was GC’ed. See also https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/999 and related issues.

comment by bouke · 2022-05-22 · in Quick fixes to your code review workflow

Seems maybe inspired by this: https://github.com/isaacs/github Was a great resource (and place to vent with like-minded users) before GitHub finally conceded and created a public issue tracking system of sorts <3

comment by patcon · 2022-02-02 · in Twitter stores original account names, dox vulnerability via Twitter Spaces

They haven't implemented wildcard search for... well, ever: https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/402 I don't even care it's very fast. Just make it work. I just hope this isn't snake oil. Weird that they claim regex support but no…

comment by einpoklum · 2021-12-08 · in Improving GitHub Code Search

…a few different diff algorithms. GitHub only seems to support the standard Myers algorithm, though: https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/455

comment by nemetroid · 2021-09-27 · in What if Git worked with programming languages?

I'd be the first to use something like that. Looks like I'm not the only one - https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/837

comment by kvark · 2021-08-22 · in GitHub Issues-only project management

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GitHub seems to be enabling IPv6 for GitHub Pages

story by scrollaway · 2021-08-14 · 52 comments

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GitHub still can't sort merged pull requests by merge date

story by eouw0o83hf · 2021-04-27 · 0 comments

…disable the "Pull Request" tab on repos, to reduce the stigma around not accepting pull requests. https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/1191 3 years and counting. Some people are resorting to adding bots which auto-close PRs with a…

comment by phendrenad2 · 2021-01-28 · in Open-source, not open-contribution

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Ask HN: What should happen to your signed Git commits if you revoke the GPG key?

story by valera_rozuvan · 2021-01-21 · 5 comments

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GitHub and the trouble with revoking GPG keys

story by valera_rozuvan · 2021-01-20 · 0 comments

…doesn't provide a means to mark a pull request as merged if you've locally rebased and pushed. https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/2 https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/548 This is what's happening with Signal's PRs. Here is an…

comment by Benjamin_Dobell · 2021-01-12 · in Molly for Android: A fork of Signal for Android with passphrase lock

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Dark Mode Coming to GitHub After 7 Years

story by whack · 2020-11-28 · 15 comments

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Dark Mode in GitHub Coming After 7 Years

story by rxsel · 2020-11-26 · 0 comments

…enabling IPv6 even on github.com and continues to be headache when working on a IPv6 only server. https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/354

comment by miyuru · 2020-10-05 · in Benchmarking static website hosting providers

…(and actually a simple one) is not on their roadmap, not even considered in the "future" section... https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/1125

comment by The_rationalist · 2020-07-28 · in GitHub Public Roadmap

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How to make your GitHub profile page 500 with profile READMEs and Asciidoctor

story by cirosantilli · 2020-07-15 · 0 comments

…with the dependency problem among Pull Requests and are struggling with it (more context here https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/959 ), this might be interesting for you. It's something that already exists for gitlab and bitbucket but…

comment by Fakerr · 2020-04-07 · in Dpulls – a dependency manager for your pull requests

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GitHub changes how authorship of sqush commits are attributed, breaks workflows

story by chrisgzf · 2020-03-05 · 4 comments

…if you want to give it a try. 0 - https://twitter.com/natfriedman/status/1170804894241972224 1 - https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/959 2 - https://reviewable.io

comment by Game_Ender · 2020-02-22 · in GitHub Discussions Beta

You don't get TLS certs for both apex and www subdomain from GitHub though. https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/1675

comment by tpush · 2020-02-17 · in Building a static serverless website using S3 and CloudFront

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Ability to Watch a project but only for major/minor releases [Feature Request]

story by jerrygoyal · 2019-12-17 · 1 comment

…because they simply don't have an IPv6 range pointing to the newer HTTPS-supporting infra. [1]: https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/354#issuecomment-385...

comment by tambre · 2019-10-29 · in Ripe NIC: 'In Five Weeks We'll Run Out of IPv4 Internet Addresses'

…get the latest changes from my github repo. too bad github can't do this yet [1]. [1]: https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/415

comment by oakslab · 2019-06-05 · in GitHub removes 5 years of One Hour One Life designer's work

…another, speak together, nor find fellow travellers. Or we get the unofficial wailing wall that is https://github.com/isaacs/github Really disappointed in the lack of critical reflection from technologists. This is not good for us as…

comment by patcon · 2019-05-23 · in GitHub Sponsors

For context, this was the most requested feature [0] in the isaacs repo of GitHub requests [1]. [0]: https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/283 [1]: https://github.com/isaacs

comment by jasonkillian · 2019-03-11 · in New GitHub Feature: Subscriptions View

…help so we could put this in a broader view of where and how it fits in to our needs. See also, https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/

comment by mitchtbaum · 2019-03-01 · in Redesigning GitHub Repository Page

How does this work? There are a few other solutions to this problem at https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/50

comment by captn3m0 · 2019-02-27 · in Show HN: Follow GitHub Organisations

…the standout top-voted issue[2] that it hasn't been implemented since being logged in 2014. [1] https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aop... [2] https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/283

comment by frou_dh · 2018-10-26 · in Microsoft completes GitHub acquisition

…also be nice to see a list of issues you're subscribed to. Here's a fun issue to follow for that - https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/283

comment by matmo · 2018-09-18 · in Towards Natural Language Semantic Code Search at GitHub

…Once they've done that, you've lost the original commits and can't see how the new ones differ. https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/997

comment by sciurus · 2018-06-06 · in Phabricator – GitHub Alternative written in PHP used by the Wikimedia Foundation

Made this as a solution to https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/410 (Warning: _very long thread_) I was already using tiny-tiny RSS for other feeds, and since GitHub provides RSS feeds for releases, I thought I'd combine the two.

comment by captn3m0 · 2018-05-31 · in Show HN: OPML generator for following your starred GitHub project releases

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GitHub pushes fail with “remote: Internal Server Error”

story by lucamilanesio · 2018-05-24 · 0 comments

…along the lines of Progressive Web Apps (PWA) and Service Workers which require HTTPS [2]. [1]: https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/156 [2]: https://developers.google.com/web/progressive-web-apps/check...

comment by JepZ · 2018-05-02 · in Custom domains on GitHub Pages gain support for HTTPS

> "It's not like Github did this today after neglecting the feature request for years" https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/156

comment by tonyztan · 2018-05-01 · in Custom domains on GitHub Pages gain support for HTTPS

…have recently been issued for your domains hosted with these services. Blogger GitHub Pages https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/156#issuecomment-366... https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/web-hosting-who-support-... and so on.

comment by rvnx · 2018-04-18 · in GitHub Pages generated a TLS cert for my own domain

This is the intended behaviour and something Github Pages users have been asking a long time for: https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/156 It's using LetsEncrypt under the hood, and only generating a cert for the custom cname pointing…

comment by snowwolf · 2018-04-18 · in GitHub Pages generated a TLS cert for my own domain

…some discussion recently on this pull request that Github was rolling this out to some accounts: https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/156

comment by colinbartlett · 2018-04-18 · in GitHub Pages generated a TLS cert for my own domain

No HTTPS for custom domains https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/156#issuecomment-366... is the main one.

comment by charlieegan3 · 2018-03-10 · in Show HN: How to Make an AWS S3 Static Website with SSL

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GitHub Is Enabling HTTPS on GitHub Page

story by laurent123456 · 2018-02-18 · 3 comments

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3+ years later, GitHub still unable to display list of 'Subscribed' issues

story by NickBusey · 2018-01-18 · 0 comments

…have a painful setup for that (also if you want custom domain here you need pay for it, obviously) https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/156

comment by lerax · 2018-01-15 · in Free static websites with SSL for hackers

…Pages, because "*.github.io" certs do not match custom domains. https://www.cloudflare.com/ssl/ https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/156#issuecomment-110...

comment by tonyztan · 2018-01-14 · in Free static websites with SSL for hackers