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• grue@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  So what you’re saying is that we need federated git.

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  • 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

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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    • lime@feddit.nu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      …git is federated. i’m assuming they’re talking about things like issues and runners, but i don’t think that’s really necessary…

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      • alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        As in the federation of Forges, like Forgejo is trying to do

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      • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Gitlab just said

        …git is federated

        If you read it again, you may find I said gitlab and not just git.

        And we won’t talk about how git’s decentralization is nothing like the concept of federation as it’s being used in this entire discussion.

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    • alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah, IRRC thus far they only have starring (not I starring, mind you) implemented and it’s not even in main yet

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  • lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I mean, this is more-or-less how the Linux kernel is managed.

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• 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.

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• Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

  So we need a free & federated identity provider to sign us up as easy as 123 there.

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  • lime@feddit.nu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    it’s called ssh

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• 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.

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• exu@feditown.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Adding Oauth with GitHub and GitLab is pretty easy

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  • woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Adding Oauth with GitHub and GitLab is pretty easy

    OAuth is just making yet another account with a 3rd party authorization mechanism.

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    • exu@feditown.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yes, but you don’t have to worry about the password

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