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Incident with Pull Requests, Git Operations and Issues

97 points kevcampb 2 hours ago 49 comments

thesdev 1 hour ago | parent

Finally a GitHub outage during European workday. Yaaay.

nope1000 7 minutes ago | parent

Although it is lunchtime :/

esher 1 hour ago | parent

Again and again?

anon7000 1 hour ago | parent

That is how explosive demand growth works after all. They just aren’t keeping up with increasing capacity or rate limiting people

crote 1 hour ago | parent

GitHub is down only on days ending in -day.

chinathrow 1 hour ago | parent

git clone works sometimes, sometimes not.

sognetic 1 hour ago | parent

Can't even pull no more using my key. That's a new low, I'm used to the website being janky nowadays but this is seriously essential

ayhanfuat 1 hour ago | parent

At least they have a very clear error message so you know what is going on.

> git@github.com: Permission denied (publickey). fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rights and the repository exists.

chinathrow 1 hour ago | parent

That's standard git, not coming from GH.

b1tshift 1 hour ago | parent

Just rolled new keys and though I'm going crazy that it's not working

igleria 1 hour ago | parent

Can't they just... sell github back like when the germans sold the nuclear plant back to mr burns?

solyin 1 hour ago | parent

As of 2026-11-04T10:25:34Z the domain MicrosoftPleaseGiveGithubToGoogle.com is still unclaimed.

selectnull 1 hour ago | parent

Yes, really at this point it would be best if MS sold Github to Google and they kill it within a year.

eknkc 1 hour ago | parent

Our deploys are tied to GitHub actions and it is becoming a liability at this point. What alternatives do people use? I mean for FOSS there are some decent stuff but we need a reliable provider for private repos.

misswaterfairy 1 hour ago | parent

Genuine question: if you're hosting private repos, is self-hosting an option?

Gitea Enterprise would be worth looking at.

https://about.gitea.com/products/gitea-enterprise/

eknkc 1 hour ago | parent

Honestly, not really wanna deal with self hosting it. Would rather pay for a decent service at this point.

import 1 hour ago | parent

There is already a blacksmith sh if you don't want to selfhost your runners. Or codeberg as a full solution if I am not mistaken.

michaelbuckbee 1 hour ago | parent

+1 for Blacksmith. You need to have a Github org to use it as it won't work on personal accounts, but it feels like a magic want that just makes runners 2x as fast.

I have it for all my stuff (dozens of repos and hundreds of PRs/builds per week) and it's only once in the last year that I've exceeded the free resource levels. I don't know if it's just extra capacity or they're burning VC dollars in the hopes of inspiring posts like this, but either way I feel like I'm taking advantage of them at this point.

crote 1 hour ago | parent

Codeberg only allows F/LOSS software, for most companies that's a dealbreaker.

pelagicAustral 1 hour ago | parent

My deployments are tied to their container registry, so I'm equally screwed... Been thinking of going back to Dokku, I started working on a third wrapper around Dokku (yeah, I've literally done this twice already), and then self-host and self-provision... I honestly thinking seriously about this.

saturn_vk 1 hour ago | parent

Self-hosted Forgejo with a bunch of runners might also be interesting for you. The workflow syntax is _almost_ identical to the github one.

import 1 hour ago | parent

gitea is amazing.

raddan 39 minutes ago | parent

Seconded. Also very easy to set up. I’ve been running it for years, along with webhooks to kick off testing and website deployment jobs. I especially like the swagger browser that generate API calls for you to try in curl. I use the API pretty extensively.

rozularen 1 hour ago | parent

self hosted forgejo has been my saviour. im thinking in acquiring a new NUC server to increase compute and storage to my homelab to add some new runners

myaccountonhn 1 hour ago | parent

Post receive hook on a bare git repo with gitolite for access control.

jelder 24 minutes ago | parent

Git itself usually works, but we gave up on GHA and use https://www.rwx.com/ for tests, previews, and deployments. It’s 2x to 10x faster than GitHub Actions and testing uncommitted changes on real CI infrastructure is a total game changer.

fauzanhilmi 1 hour ago | parent

For a moment I thought my ssh key got breached. Fricking hell Github!

dude250711 1 hour ago | parent

These days, perhaps, normal undisrupted operation should start counting as an incident...

cashbreaker 1 hour ago | parent

I was thinking I'm going crazy with me ssh keys not working on both of my machines.

techterrier 1 hour ago | parent

https is working still!

git -c credential.helper= -c 'credential.helper=!gh auth git-credential' pull https://github.com/myorg/my-repo.git

larsnystrom 1 hour ago | parent

Why haven’t they asked an AI agent to fix all their bugs yet? /s

refactor_master 1 hour ago | parent

Prompting the wrong things is just a skill issue.

feukon 1 hour ago | parent

The day GitHub will no longer be free is approaching... they just can't support the abnormal amount of things being pushed rn

crote 1 hour ago | parent

For most people here GitHub is already a paid platform. Our companies rely on it as a core part of our development workflows, and we pay a decent bunch of money for it. If it was only the free part of GH having issues, it wouldn't get even remotely near this kind of exposure.

Developers are expensive. If I can't ship a feature on time because GitHub issues keeps forcing me to switch to different tasks to work around git/PR/ticket/Actions downtime, then that costs my company real money - despite us not being the source of the AI DDoS that GitHub has happily been welcoming.

To me, the situation is very simple: either 1) rein in the AI deluge, or 2) isolate paying customers from it, or we'll move to an alternative.

For businesses the current state of unreliability would be unacceptable if it was completely free, the fact that it is actually paid just adds insult to injury.

rarisma 1 hour ago | parent

       - - >  i wake up - -
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       github has an outage

grishka 1 hour ago | parent

I managed to push a commit over ssh but then the client threw an error before the push fully completed. I can see the commit on the web, but my client still thinks it isn't pushed. And now when I try to fetch I get "permission denied" after a long wait, which is scary. I first thought something got hacked.

Maybe they need a better AI model for their vibe coding. That'll fix everything, right? At least that's what my friends keep telling me when I say that the free LLMs I played around with a bit are incredibly dumb.

misnome 1 hour ago | parent

At this point, even when there isn't an incident, push/pull have been so unreliable as to fail about 30% of the time.

I can live with the occasional outage but this is a constant problem.

w3ll_w3ll_w3ll 57 minutes ago | parent

I feel there is a problem with your connectivity or with the Github datacenter you are being routed to. That has not been my experience.

rvz 1 hour ago | parent

Another incident. Last time we had one was 5 days ago [0]

It's up to you if you want more of this instability. Perhaps you should consider a self-hosted alternative.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50307843

marvstazar 1 hour ago | parent

Pretty good timing now that Rails has released a security update :|

https://rubyonrails.org/2026/11/4/Rails-8.0.5.2-and-8.1.4.1-...

malikolivier 56 minutes ago | parent

GitHub outages can be a drain on productivity. If your stack is pulling artifacts from GitHub, and this consistently fails during GitHub outage, you can consider having a file-cache in between.

Some of our customers unexpectedly started using the service we're running as a file-cache around GitHub to mitigate GitHub outages.

We wrote about this use case in our blog: https://www.stablebuild.com/blog/protect-your-builds-from-gi...

a-squirrel-comm 55 minutes ago | parent

It looks like today there was maintenance scheduled to deprecate support for certain categories of SSH keys: https://github.blog/changelog/2026-09-22-security-improvemen...

> November 4, 2026: We’ll have a brownout of the removal of the ssh-rsa signature type (i.e., RSA keys using SHA-1) and the diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha256 key exchange algorithm.

I guess something went sideways.

igleria 51 minutes ago | parent

hey how much do I owe you for this INCREDIBLY important information? This is not sarcasm btw.

a-squirrel-comm 38 minutes ago | parent

nothing :) hope they'll release a statement soon, this is was an assumption on my side, it might be totally wrong. I had intermittent issues with basic git pull/push ops locally so I went to dig a bit. ps: if you do have money to spare, consider donating to the EFF (https://www.eff.org) though B)

igleria 37 minutes ago | parent

thanks a bunch! will do.

qtqtqt 43 minutes ago | parent

How to check if one's SSH keys are still compatible?

dist-epoch 7 minutes ago | parent

if any of your SSH key files are bigger than 500 bytes, you should rotate them

fredsted 51 minutes ago | parent

Just set up a Gitea instance, pushed my code and switched my deployment script to it. Took 30 minutes. Github pulls still aren't working.

swe_dima 41 minutes ago | parent

Temporary workaround is to do

git config --global url."https://github.com/".insteadOf git@github.com:

so it pushes / pulls using HTTPS

when things are back to normal run:

git config --global --unset url."https://github.com/".insteadOf