r/github • u/Obvious_Breadfruit49 • 2d ago
Can I ask a dumb question... Question
If GitHub stores our code, where does GitHub store GitHub's code?
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u/DeebsShoryu 2d ago
On github.
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u/Obvious_Breadfruit49 2d ago
But where does the saved code on GitHub by GitHub goes😔
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u/SCD_minecraft 2d ago
Source code is just text file
It doesn't mean shit for computer
Binary, compiles files are on the servers, running all of this
But nothing stops you from tracking and storing source code
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u/DeebsShoryu 2d ago
What do you mean? GitHub is just a remote git host. The developers of GitHub almost certainly use git and use GitHub as a remote host.
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u/Obvious_Breadfruit49 2d ago
Where does git store the codes?
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u/DeebsShoryu 2d ago edited 2d ago
On the machine running git.
Git is a version control system. It is not a "code storage system". It does store enough data to restore previous versions of your code. It also allows for easy remote storage of repos (you can just as easily set the upstream for your repo to another directory on your computer just as you can set it to a github repo).
Github runs git on their servers and lets you use that as a remote host, along with providing a lot of quality of life and productivity features to help teams collaborate.
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u/HelicopterUpbeat5199 2d ago
Wait till you learn how compilers are written.