Is anybody else having github issues right now? I've got public repos suddenly asking for a username when you try to clone them... scripts like "cargo build" aren't working and say "spurious network error", but the error is github suddenly asking for a username. It isn't all repos, but happening for https://github.com/mikedilger/nostr-types
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Mfa might have started to be required today?
Can I ask a serious question please, and it is in earnest. What is a "Git" and what is a "Repo", i think i know that a repo is a repository, but what is that? Is it a list of code, to be audited? There's a few other things I'd like to know, and I could, of course, "Google" them, but it would be nice if a #Nostrich, could explain.
#Dontcode.
We share code via code "repositories" we call "repo"s for short, so you got that one right.
Git is a version control tool that is used for pushing and pulling changes to code between repos. The repo has to be a "git" repo for it to work. There are other software repos like cvs, sccs, mercurial, bazaar, and more but the vast majority of developers today use 'git' because it is very good -- written by Linux Torvalds (Larry Wall, Junio Hamano, others) who started Linux.
I think the problem was I gave a bad commit hash, but the error message really does not match the actual situation at all. Anyhow, it wasn't a github problem and I got it fixed.
