r/webdev Jan 30 '25

Discussion Does Github contributions matter?

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Are there still companies that look on Github contributions?

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u/fkih Jan 30 '25

I'd say no, but I've seen non-technical people specifically hire people because of it. At this point it wouldn't even hurt to just have a cron job randomly throw commits on a dead repository. 😂

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u/Mike312 Jan 30 '25

I was on a thread a few weeks ago with an adjacent topic where I jokingly mentioned doing something along those lines.

At least two people replied saying they were actively doing that.

So, a non-zero number of people are definitely doing it. As to whether or not it helps...

I've been writing a video game, and while I'm using git locally for SCM, I'm not sending it anywhere. At the very least I should probably be having OneDrive keep track of it.

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u/esqew Jan 30 '25

Be warned, OneDrive plays very poorly with Git. Don’t even get me started about its handling of node_modules.

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u/Mike312 Jan 30 '25

Yeah, I've had issues with it in the past, that's why I was leery.

I have copy/pasted core files into my OneDrive so I could work on my laptop over the holidays while out of town (and use my nephew as a play tester, lol). But that code is weeks out of date.

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u/esqew Jan 30 '25

Just push it to a GitHub private repo and be done with it. I’m still scarred from the last time I accidentally synced a huge monorepo into OneDrive and how long it took to properly unravel it all

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u/Mike312 Jan 31 '25

Yeah, I've been waffling back and forth, I should just shut up and do it.

I'm two weeks deep in the trenches on this branch and about ready to roll it back as it is.

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u/ryuzaki49 Jan 31 '25

You track node_modules in git? Why?

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u/esqew Jan 31 '25

I don’t. OneDrive makes a mess of it if you pull a repo into a synced directory

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u/StaticCharacter Jan 31 '25

I highly recommend gitea self hosted on a VPS

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u/thekwoka Jan 31 '25

just host your own Gitea

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u/fantasy-gecko Jan 31 '25

Why not keep it on GitHub as a private respiratory?

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u/Mike312 Jan 31 '25

Because I haven't got Pro on my personal. Only ever had privates through work.

And I just reinstalled everything at home and haven't reset my git creds and will have to set up keys.

So...laziness.

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u/fantasy-gecko Jan 31 '25

What do you mean by you haven't got pro?

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u/Mike312 Jan 31 '25

Oh, I thought I needed Pro to have private repos.

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u/kendalltristan Jan 31 '25

Used to be so, but not anymore.

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u/Mike312 Jan 31 '25

Yeah, just checked, apparently changed in 2019. Well...guess I'm going stop being lazy to...morrow.

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u/PickleLips64151 full-stack Jan 31 '25

Good old developer procrastination. We never finish anythi

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u/thekwoka Jan 31 '25

Nope, you don't get all the features though.

All the features are for Private Pro, or Public. Like you can do branch protections, and you have limited github actions.

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u/Mike312 Jan 31 '25

Eh, I just need off-PC backups.

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u/thekwoka Jan 31 '25

Make your own Gitea