Submitted 1 year ago by onlinepersona@programming.dev to programming@programming.dev
Let’s be honest, the majority here probably has a github account. Some of us are happy as a clam and wouldn’t switch no matter what happened, but there are some who would and haven’t yet. Why?
I’ve never really heard of alternatives, to be honest. If others are equally easy to use and work with Git, I’d do it. Taking suggestions for alternatives?
GitLab. You can use their SaaS offering (gitlab.com) or run the open source version on your own server(s).
I was self hosting GitLab for a while. The docker container was quick and easy to set up, simply worked out of the box.
You can host your own Git server.
ITT: people.who.thing that GitHub == git
Where’d you get that impression from? You are aware that this is programming.dev not lemmy.ml or some non-programming instance, right?
My own Git server.
With free time and some rest I’d move to sourcehut.
Simple. I would switch if there was something better available. Nothing else I’ve tried is even close to as good.
I use GitHub as an off-site backup for personal projects for over a decade now. I don’t think I’ll be moving away for any reason.
Killer feature of gitlab that I have yet to see replicated is automatic repo creation on git push. This makes GitLab my go-to for this role.
I want to have separated accounts for different sets of project...
Signed up a second account... it got suspended instantly (after I log in with my main). According to ToS, I can't have more than one account.
Nuh uh, You aren't the only provider. Headed to Gitlab, no more bs.
Was this with the same email address? I have multiple accounts for personal and work. I sometimes log out of one account and into another in the same browser, and have never had a problem. Honestly never thought it’d be a big deal.
No. Maybe it flagged dynamic IP as spam or whatever. At this point I don't really care. Got what I want.
It would take a lot to get me to start using it. Git is great, and GitHub is a mess.
Someone creates an alternative that is federated by default, like Lemmy. But additionally it is fault tolerant, i.e. if one instance goes down, my account will still live on on another, and so will the repositories and all their associated data.
This is the world I want to live in.
Self-host your git repo.
git is already decentralized.
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
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!
Don’t know if anyone remembers but private repo’s used to be restricted on GitHub, so I actually use BitBucket for most of my private stuff.
Feels like it wouldn’t take much change for me to leave with my own stuff although some presence would always be necessary due to contributions. I don’t use any of the “features” of GH though, except for pages and that’s for work.
Already moved in the sense that I am not creating any new projects on GH. I am rehosting old projects opportunistically. No plans to get rid of the account unless GH does something really messed up.
I mirror all my stuff on Gitlab just in case GitHub goes away, it probably won’t happen but I like having backups! :)
As someone who has to use Azure DevOps for work, I can safely say GitHub is safe. Microsoft put so much effort into while Azure DevOps seems like an after thought to them now.
I use it for work so to entirely leave it they’d have to move away. That seems unlikely.
My account has not seen a single commit in years now, and yet I can let it go… I still “need” it for support on an old project of mine that I share with other people, and to submit changes for projects I care about which are only on GitHub.
I also keep my account for name squatting purposes, and so people can find the link to my actual repo.
I don’t think I’ll go all the way to delete my account, but my projects are definitely not reliant on it anymore.
Vex_Detrause@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
What did GitHub do?[serious]
onlinepersona@programming.dev 1 year ago
They’re just a monopoly and could easily pull a Unity, Twitter, Reddit, or whatever other big service exists.
It’s the implication
MajorHavoc@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yep. I’m a very happy GitHub user, with my finger idling near the eject button since they’re a prime candidate to pull a Unity.
lloram239@feddit.de 1 year ago
Nothing too dramatic yet, but a lot of features GitHub provides are GitHub specific, not Git, which creates a lock-in and dependency that will cause problems sooner or later and make moving difficult.
thelonelyghost@infosec.pub 1 year ago
Like what?
I’m not saying there isn’t vendor lock-in, but I am saying it likely isn’t the features of GitHub that are limiting that. Third party integrations will follow wherever the foot traffic goes.