There’s plenty alternatives.
- Sourcehut sr.ht (possibly other instances)
- Various gitlab instances, e.g. framagit.org
- not to mention git’s own web ui which runs under so many domains; some of them might even be open to signups.
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phirdowak@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Are we moving to Codeberg now?
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
ronigami@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Unfortunately none has quite as good of a search engine. Do any actually have social features like friends and feeds?
Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Why would you need those in a git server?
ronigami@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Search is really useful for finding error messages’ origin as well as to find random example usages of APIs that have less than stellar documentation. The nice thing about GH search is that it allows many different facets like language and is pretty flexible by allowing exact search terms. Of course the corpus size helps as well.
mintiefresh@piefed.ca 3 weeks ago
I would like to but I do want some private repos.
Maybe self hosting is the best move from here on in.
Jason2357@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
A forge like Codeberg is great for collaboration, but if you mean private as in just-for-yourself, pushing to a bare repo on just about anything will get it done. No need for a software forge. If you already sync files somehow, like some dropbox equivelant, put bare repos on there and push/pull from there. That said, forgejo is very easy to self-host and the identical UI to Codeberg.
Cenzorrll@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I don’t do any development, but my stepkid is starting to get into it, so I set up a forgejo container on my server. I had zero issues setting it up and now I’m planning on using it for my own purposes.
Jason2357@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Git is great for a folder of plain text notes and writing. Even binary files are okay, but you don’t benefit from the line-by-line diffs.
davidagain@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Top notch stepdad.
Feyd@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Private repos, if you don’t need a forge, can easily be pushed to a VPS with ssh
sbv@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Doesn’t Codeberg have private repos? I could’ve sworn I’ve created one.
tfm@europe.pub 3 weeks ago
If you need private repositories for commercial projects (e.g. because you represent a company or are a developer that needs a space to host private freelance projects for your clients), we would highly recommend that you take a look at Forgejo. Forgejo is the Git hosting software that Codeberg runs. It is free software and relatively easy to self-host. Codeberg does not offer private hosting services.
doeknius_gloek@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
How about private repositories?
In many cases, yes, we do allow them (under certain conditions)!
Our priority is to support the free content and free and open-source software ecosystems. As such, we cannot invest time, hardware and resources to provide private hosting for everyone. However, contributors to the aforementioned ecosystems can use up to 100 MB of private content at their own convenience.
mrks@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
It does: docs.codeberg.org/…/first-repository/ (visibility option)
mintiefresh@piefed.ca 3 weeks ago
Thank you. I will have to look.
I haven't used Codeberg before so I was kind of just assuming.
I think I will make my way over to Codeberg.
mesamunefire@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Or your own server. But yeah this is not so good for the rest of us. They are doubling down on AI.
woelkchen@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Self hosting for your own needs is great but you won’t get the “drive by” contributions you get from shared platforms. On GitHub, Gitlab, and Codeberg, if I even see as little as a typo in the readme file, I open a pull request. I will not sign up on a hundred different git hosters for stuff like that.
grue@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
So what you’re saying is that we need federated git.
kybean@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
Forgejo, the software project powering Codeberg, is working on adding federation but it’s got a long way to go before it’s a usable feature
mesamunefire@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
The closest I found that works is: https://hackaday.com/2024/03/16/radicle-an-open-source-peer-to-peer-github-alternative/
https://radicle.xyz/
It took a LONG time to get set up on one of my systems. It worked! Unfortunately, I found that just having git by itself was fine for my purposes. And most people are throwing in behind codeberg which is fine by me.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Huh. Gitlab just said it’s too hard with their cut staffing numbers and they’re not doing federation.
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
I mean, this is more-or-less how the Linux kernel is managed.
mesamunefire@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
I remember Sourceforge, bitbucket, and a host of other "source" servers. GitHub was nice for a while, but its just another iteration of the same. Heck a lot of the major repos (like Linux for example) only do mirrors to GitHub. The same with codeberg, Gitlab, and other centralized services.
At my last few jobs, we couldn't host on GitHub because of HIPPAA compliance. It was fine. Self hosting git is VERY common in quite a few industries.
Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
So we need a free & federated identity provider to sign us up as easy as 123 there.
lime@feddit.nu 3 weeks ago
it’s called ssh
lime@feddit.nu 3 weeks ago
i am still rooting for patch requests to become more mainstream, it seems like the best possible solution. it just needs some discoverability.
exu@feditown.com 3 weeks ago
Adding Oauth with GitHub and GitLab is pretty easy
woelkchen@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
OAuth is just making yet another account with a 3rd party authorization mechanism.