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GitLab now worth twice what Microsoft paid for GitHub

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Re: GitLab now worth twice what Microsoft paid for GitHub

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Post by SPascareli13 »

satvikpendem wrote: post #6
joedoejr wrote: post #3

It is like people just can’t not to vendorlock even with git.

Eh, they provide a useful service. I wouldn't want to run my own git server.

Honest question, why not?

Its not like that's something that will scale infinitely, you only have so many devs and so many repos to work on, also it's not like it's hard to backup the data, actually, you can bet that you will have a updated copy of every repo on someone's machine if things really go south.

Of all things we can outsource in our infra, git seems one of the least necessary.

Re: GitLab now worth twice what Microsoft paid for GitHub

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Post by stu2b50 »

SPascareli13 wrote: post #11
satvikpendem wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Eh, they provide a useful service. I wouldn't want to run my own git server.

Honest question, why not? Its not like that's something that will scale infinitely, you only have so many devs and so many repos to work on, also it's not like it's hard to backup the data, actually, you can bet that you will have a updated copy of every repo on someone's machine if things really go south. Of all things we can outsource in our infra, git seems one of the least necessary.

Git vaults do a lot more than host remote git repos. Gitlab and github are valuable for everything else they do - the UI, PR management, issue tracking, CI, and so forth.

Re: GitLab now worth twice what Microsoft paid for GitHub

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Post by swiley »

satvikpendem wrote: post #6
joedoejr wrote: post #3

It is like people just can’t not to vendorlock even with git.

Eh, they provide a useful service. I wouldn't want to run my own git server.

You don't have to though, that's what makes it so great. Just push with ssh to a directory under /var/www and you're good to go.

Re: GitLab now worth twice what Microsoft paid for GitHub

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Post by boublepop »

atatatat wrote: post #7
joedoejr wrote: post #3

It is like people just can’t not to vendorlock even with git.

Conversely, services that give access to leave/clone via an open protocol like git are the last ones you should worry about lock-in with...right? Unless you get too comfortable with the services' tertiary benefits, and that's not lock in — that's just comfort.

Having all of your issue tracking, docs wiki, build pipelines and more be reliant on a platform Ian or just comfort, it’s lock-in. If you ask a company “can’t we just switch from gitlab to github? Or the reverse, you’ll get a million reasons why it’s a huge task, because everything outside of the repo itself isn’t easily transferred.
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