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Besides the usability problems with bloated MS Shitware, this is a strategic point that I see considered far too rarely for my taste.
Although I'm not a fan of GH, I appreciate the ability to see how popular/valid some project is by looking at the number of stars (I know this is far from a perfect signal). I'm much less likely to try projects that have a low number of stars, or projects in different places.
God forbid we'd have to actually look at the code itself to figure out whether something is good.
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This is kind of like asking what the point of Dropbox is when we have rsync. Rsync is nice, but most people won't know how to use it.
Setting up a server with SSH and GitLab is more work than setting up a server with SSH. Dropbox is great and I use it but only because I can’t get the same functionality out of rsync without major additional orchestration. But if I am the only one working on my own project why would I need a second read-only UI for my own code?
As for gitlab versus github: I understand that gitlab may have more features and thus options, but I can't stand its default UI. Every time I use it I am annoyed compared to the github variant. Perhaps gitlab is nicer to have for teams, but from a user's perspective, I feel gitlab is worse than github (UI-wise primarily).
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On their home page they have links to some repositories (or equivalent term) on a couple of Darcs hosts. https://hub.darcs.net https://smeder.ee Here's a recent discussion about Darcs, it's the first I've heard of it. Darcs, Friendly Version Control - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43022059 (9 months ago | 76 comments)
Darcs is older than Git
I've been messing around with GitLab as a self hosted alternative for a few years. I do like it, but it is resource intensive! For the past few days I've been playing with Forgejo (from the Codeberg people). It is fantastic. The biggest difference is memory usage. GitLab is Ruby on Rails and over a dozen services (gitlab itself, then nginx, postgrest, prometheus, etc). Forgejo is written in go and is a single binary.…
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Darcs? Fossil? Subversion?
i still kind of miss mercurial.