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Re: GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation

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Gitlab is like the SAP of git, something for bloated big corporations. I've never seen a single FOSS repo there.

Yeah, who's ever heard of this weird company named nvidia https://gitlab.com/nvidia >, or inkscape https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape >, or F-Droid https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidclient >

In what world does nvidia fall under FOSS and not big corporation? That seems like an odd example to lead with.

Re: GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation

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I prefer Forgejo, but both it and Gitea support actions like GitHub's. You can have a nice CI/CD pipeline that runs 100% in-house, for free. I adore it for personal projects.

> Gitea support actions like GitHub's Citation needed. nektos/act is for sure not "like GitHub's"

Here's Gitea's own comparison to GitHub's Actions: https://docs.gitea.com/usage/actions/comparison

Sure, it's not identical, and no one claims it is. I think it's defensibly like them, though.

Re: GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation

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The GitHub website experience is already messed up with forcing Copilot into everything. But then asking for user feedback about new setting options for issues but denying any request for a user default.

This surely isn't going in any good direction. What's next ads in commits?

Re: GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation

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Yeah, GitHub is cooked. Now's a good time to consider migrating to alternative forges like Tangled ( https://tangled.sh ; bit of a shameless plug, I'll admit. I'm the co-founder). We've got a more advanced PR flow, jujutsu change-id support and we just launched our in-house CI! https://blog.tangled.sh/ci Long-term, we aim to be the new social coding platform, collectively built in the open.

Damn, why all the downvotes?

Probably "bit of a shameless plug, I'll admit. I'm the co-founder". Lots of HN users don't like feeling advertised to.

Re: GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation

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post #43

Not too surprising considering how big a lead Github had in the generative coding space and how it managed to give it all up to a half dozen different companies over the last few years. An executive shakeup was long overdue.

Heres the thing: it was a dev company with a side-AI business, but now Microsoft has signaled it wants an AI-GitHub with a dev-side business.

The features that will be prioritized will be AI not Git improvement

Re: GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation

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GitHub will now fall under Microsoft's CoreAI team, which give some indication of GitHub's purpose and direction going forward.

You mean all of Microsoft's direction? Look at how VSCode changelogs have morphed from editing features to 90% AI.

I can confidently predict that the breakout dev tool in the next few years will have LLM features, but won’t have forgotten stuff like editing features. As Claude Code has already demonstrated, you do t even need an editor for good LLM integration.

Re: GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation

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GitLab is like, really good. No need to put your codebase in the "cloud."

It's... ok. But many of the really useful features are paid. E.g. merge trains or mandatory reviews.

I also don't think "it's open source!" is a huge differentiator because it's enormous, difficult to deploy from source and written in Ruby so the chance of being able to actually modify it for some feature you want is near zero.

I think Forgejo is probably a way better option at this point even if it is less mature. It's written in Go so way easier to deploy and edit. And none of the features are paid.

I do like Gitlab but... it's not amazing. I liked Phabricator more (except for its lack of integrated CI).

Re: GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation

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post #75
post #43

Not too surprising considering how big a lead Github had in the generative coding space and how it managed to give it all up to a half dozen different companies over the last few years. An executive shakeup was long overdue.

Heres the thing: it was a dev company with a side-AI business, but now Microsoft has signaled it wants an AI-GitHub with a dev-side business. The features that will be prioritized will be AI not Git improvement

Are there any improvements to be done to Git? It seems like kind of a solved problem, like word processors or spreadsheets… most “improvements” to those are diminishing returns.

I don't mean to sounds like an MS apologist, btw. I fully predicted and hoped for an exodus from Github to GitLab or something back when it got acquired — I'm from the Microsux generation.

Re: GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation

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GitLab is like, really good. No need to put your codebase in the "cloud."

“Really good” under which metric? Because it is slow, even more confusing after the terrible sidebar redesign and, to quote a famous author, its usage does not spark any joy. Codeberg and gitea, on the other hand, feel great, like early Github. Fast and simple, instead of a product that’s adding feature on top of half-baked feature to capture the sweet corporate $$$.

Really good if you go by a feature checklist, probably. A bloated clutter of more or less working features, checking enterprise boxes.
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