Microsoft has my source code
FWIW, other public git instances exist. As in alternatives to github.
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q1p_@lemmy.zip 11 hours agoI think the only thing that makes me worry a little bit is that Microsoft has my source code. It’s not “bad” but sometimes I think about it. So I probably need a gitea instance then.
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 9 hours ago
frongt@lemmy.zip 9 hours ago
You can host git anywhere you have ssh or https. I don’t know if you can push over https though.
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 9 hours ago
I know that. Point is: you don’t have to.
BingBong@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
Encrypt before backing it up remotely.
TheFogan@programming.dev 9 hours ago
Not sure that really works for git though… at least with regards to it’s primary usage.
git isn’t just a backup… it’s about version control.
IE the point is if you know what you are doing, you realize this function isn’t working in this edge case, you can search through and find out, when did this part of this file change… and what was it before, and it will basically find exactly that.
If you encrypted it so that git couldn’t actually read the contents, then you basically reduced a crazy powerful tool, into a glorified dropbox. (IE yeah you could revert back to previous versions… but you’d basically be counting on your memory for what you changed when, if the git server can’t read the files).
BingBong@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
Good point and teaches me to be too quick to respond. Cheers!
kalapala@sopuli.xyz 7 hours ago
Forgejo is what you should use nowadays: lwn.net/Articles/963095/