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Re: GitHub Alternatives

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Post by craftyguy »

aneutron wrote: post #8

Why are people jumping ship to lower quality services ? And I'm talking about unrecognizable brand names, because at least migrating to Gitlab or Bitbucket may be understandable in a way, but still an exageration in my opinion.

Because now github is owned by a company that was formerly very hostile to open source software, and this company is magically not.

Re: GitHub Alternatives

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Post by jug »

aneutron wrote: post #8

Why are people jumping ship to lower quality services ? And I'm talking about unrecognizable brand names, because at least migrating to Gitlab or Bitbucket may be understandable in a way, but still an exageration in my opinion.

I'm not sure how useful this comment is in that terse form... I've heard many voicing opinions that now is a good opportunity to jump to the superior Gitlab for reasons like self hosting if not for future proofing.

Edit: OK, this was in response to your unedited comment

Re: GitHub Alternatives

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Post by chapati23 »

Honest question: Besides more traction among the open source community, where do you feel GitHub is stronger than GitLab?

I’m not affiliated with GitLab, however a little biased because we’re using GitLab instead of GitHub at our company.

Feature-wise, It seems to me that GitLab is running circles around GitHub. Curious about other opinions.

Re: GitHub Alternatives

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Post by ninjamayo »

aneutron wrote: post #8

Why are people jumping ship to lower quality services ? And I'm talking about unrecognizable brand names, because at least migrating to Gitlab or Bitbucket may be understandable in a way, but still an exageration in my opinion.

From people I spoke to everyone seems concerned with what might happen. It is possible nothing bad happens at all but people cannot trust MS after what happened to a lot of the companies they acquired in the past.

Re: GitHub Alternatives

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Post by rixrax »

ninjamayo wrote: post #5

Gitlab it is then! Not sure what to do with all my Github tshirts now :)

I was going to point out that GitHub pages are so great for hosting static content that that alone keeps me in GitHub. But looks like GitLab already implements their equivalent.

Too bad it looks like they don't handle enabling TLS/SSL for custom domains as conveniently as GitHub does (e.g. one click to enable and they will then get the cert through LetsEncrypt or something without me having to bother with getting it from a CA, renewals etc.) [1].

Already commented about this elsewhere, but if anyone from GitLab is reading, this thing would make any potential transition much more convenient for me.

[1] https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/pages/getting_starte...

Re: GitHub Alternatives

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Post by CGamesPlay »

I've never used Github for personal, closed-source projects, but if you have and want to switch to something that provides absolutely no features except git hosting, here are 3 I've used:

- Keybase git: https://keybase.io/blog/encrypted-git-for-everyone (my preferred solution these days).

- AWS CodeCommit: https://aws.amazon.com/codecommit/ ("encrypted", but I don't know if AWS employees can access it).

- Dropbox git remote: https://github.com/anishathalye/git-remote-dropbox (it's slow and unencrypted, but uses Dropbox).

Re: GitHub Alternatives

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Post by PascLeRasc »

chapati23 wrote: post #15

Honest question: Besides more traction among the open source community, where do you feel GitHub is stronger than GitLab? I’m not affiliated with GitLab, however a little biased because we’re using GitLab instead of GitHub at our company. Feature-wise, It seems to me that GitLab is running circles around GitHub. Curious about other opinions.

That's it, the open-source community is there. Performance doesn't really matter when there's tons of amazing projects being hosted in one place. If features were important, Gitlab would be more popular than Github.
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