Incident with Pull Requests, Git Operations and Issues (githubstatus.com)
99 points by kevcampb 2 hours ago
a-squirrel-comm an hour ago
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 an hour ago
hey how much do I owe you for this INCREDIBLY important information? This is not sarcasm btw.
a-squirrel-comm an hour ago
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 an hour ago
qtqtqt an hour ago
How to check if one's SSH keys are still compatible?
dist-epoch 16 minutes ago
if any of your SSH key files are bigger than 500 bytes, you should rotate them
eknkc 2 hours ago
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.
jelder 33 minutes ago
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.
pelagicAustral 2 hours ago
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.
misswaterfairy 2 hours ago
Genuine question: if you're hosting private repos, is self-hosting an option?
Gitea Enterprise would be worth looking at.
eknkc an hour ago
Honestly, not really wanna deal with self hosting it. Would rather pay for a decent service at this point.
import an hour ago
saturn_vk 2 hours ago
Self-hosted Forgejo with a bunch of runners might also be interesting for you. The workflow syntax is _almost_ identical to the github one.
myaccountonhn an hour ago
Post receive hook on a bare git repo with gitolite for access control.
rozularen an hour ago
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
import an hour ago
gitea is amazing.
raddan an hour ago
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.
rarisma an hour ago
- - > i wake up - -
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github has an outagecashbreaker 2 hours ago
I was thinking I'm going crazy with me ssh keys not working on both of my machines.
techterrier an hour ago
https is working still!
git -c credential.helper= -c 'credential.helper=!gh auth git-credential' pull https://github.com/myorg/my-repo.git
thesdev 2 hours ago
Finally a GitHub outage during European workday. Yaaay.
nope1000 16 minutes ago
Although it is lunchtime :/
sognetic 2 hours ago
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 2 hours ago
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 2 hours ago
That's standard git, not coming from GH.
b1tshift 2 hours ago
Just rolled new keys and though I'm going crazy that it's not working
marvstazar an hour ago
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-...
swe_dima an hour ago
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
fauzanhilmi 2 hours ago
For a moment I thought my ssh key got breached. Fricking hell Github!
misnome an hour ago
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 an hour ago
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.
igleria 2 hours ago
Can't they just... sell github back like when the germans sold the nuclear plant back to mr burns?
solyin 2 hours ago
As of 2026-11-04T10:25:34Z the domain MicrosoftPleaseGiveGithubToGoogle.com is still unclaimed.
selectnull 2 hours ago
Yes, really at this point it would be best if MS sold Github to Google and they kill it within a year.
feukon an hour ago
The day GitHub will no longer be free is approaching... they just can't support the abnormal amount of things being pushed rn
crote an hour ago
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.
fredsted an hour ago
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.
grishka an hour ago
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.
esher 2 hours ago
Again and again?
crote an hour ago
GitHub is down only on days ending in -day.
anon7000 2 hours ago
That is how explosive demand growth works after all. They just aren’t keeping up with increasing capacity or rate limiting people
chinathrow 2 hours ago
git clone works sometimes, sometimes not.
dude250711 2 hours ago
These days, perhaps, normal undisrupted operation should start counting as an incident...
rvz an hour ago
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.
larsnystrom an hour ago
Why haven’t they asked an AI agent to fix all their bugs yet? /s
refactor_master an hour ago
Prompting the wrong things is just a skill issue.
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