Comment on What would it take for you to move away from Github?

Sibbo@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Self-host your git repo.

  git is already decentralized.

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  • bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’d have to assume they mean the features of Github like pull requests, issue tracking, wikis, etc that aren’t part of the git

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    • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      All of those features are very poorly implemented by GitHub. There are many other platforms which do a better job and can integrate with git.

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      • thelonelyghost@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        And can integrate with git? Examples?

        I haven’t found a platform that handles issues integrated with git (as a technology) except, maybe, git-bug.

        The wiki concept is simple; an external repo that’s a static site generator. All GitHub’s wiki happens to be is a fancy UI around Gollum wiki.

        The protected branches and other git hooks are definitely part of the git-hooks feature that ship with the software.

        Honestly, the full integration and friendliness to self-hosting had me seriously looking at Fossil, until I saw some opinions I couldn’t get on board with (e.g., automatically pushing to/pulling from remote on every commit)

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  • Turun@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Try actually working on 5 different Gitlab instances and you will soon notice that there is in fact a really big difference between federation and decentralization.

    You need a new account for every single server. And if you don’t want email notifications you’d have to manually check all of them to see if there are issues relevant for you.

    Though for what it’s worth Gitlab is actually looking into potentially supporting ActivityPub in the future!

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    • onlinepersona@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Try actually working on 5 different Gitlab instances and you will soon notice that there is in fact a really big difference between federation and decentralization.

      This is my biggest problem with Gitlab and github alternatives. Multiple accounts on every single instance you want to contribute to. It’s a pain

      Though for what it’s worth Gitlab is actually looking into potentially supporting ActivityPub in the future!

      Gitlab could’ve worked on federation years ago, but they sat on their hands for at least 7 years until an external contributor decided he would implement it. Good on the dude, but fuck gitlab for being so passive about it for all these years.

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      • abhibeckert@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        This is my biggest problem with Gitlab and github alternatives. Multiple accounts on every single instance you want to contribute to. It’s a pain

        Wah really? I contribute to, like countless projects on github. Sometimes just a comment in a discussion or a single line pull request and then never again… gitlab sounds horrible.

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