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most people think git = github
Yup. I’ve heard several people say that Git is a product from Microsoft…
The irony, when you realize that Linus Torvalds created git.
You already have a Git server
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Re: You already have a Git server
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most people think git = github
Nonsense... Even someone who knows that git isn't GitHub might not be aware that ssh is enough to use git remotely. That's actually the case for me! I'm a HUGE fan of git, I mildly dislike GitHub, and I never knew that ssh was enough to push to a remote repo. Like, how does it even work, I don't need a server? I suspect this is due to my poor understanding of ssh, not my poor understand of git.
Did you know that you can use git locally? It works just like that because ssh is a remote shell.
Read https://git-scm.com/docs/git-init#Documentation/git-init.txt...
Anyway it sounds like you have a lot of holes in your git-knowledge and should read some man pages
Re: You already have a Git server
#33Interesting. I am just trying to decide between self-hosting Forgejo and other options for hosting Git in own private network.
Could also consider running a Tangled knot (lightweight, headless git servers): https://tangled.org
Does this support private repositories with collaboration?
Re: You already have a Git server
#34Re: You already have a Git server
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most people think git = github
I always found these sort of categorical denigrations to be off base. If most people do think git = github then that's because they were taught it by somebody. A lot of somebodies for "most people". Likely by the same somebodies who also come to places like this. It has always taken a village to raise a child and that is just as true for an infant as a junior programmer. But instead we live in a sad world of "why did…
they were taught by github
Re: You already have a Git server
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most people think git = github
Nonsense... Even someone who knows that git isn't GitHub might not be aware that ssh is enough to use git remotely. That's actually the case for me! I'm a HUGE fan of git, I mildly dislike GitHub, and I never knew that ssh was enough to push to a remote repo. Like, how does it even work, I don't need a server? I suspect this is due to my poor understanding of ssh, not my poor understand of git.
Git is distributed, meaning every copy is isolated and does not depends on other's copy. Adding remotes to an instance is mostly giving a name to an URL(URI?) for the fetch, pull, push operation, which exchange commits. As Commits are immutable and forms a chain, it's easy to know when two nodes diverge and conflict resolution can take place.
From the git-fetch(1) manual page:
> Git supports ssh, git, http, and https protocols (in addition, ftp and ftps can be used for fetching, but this is inefficient and deprecated; do not use them).
You only need access to the other node repo information. There's no server. You can also use a simple path and store the other repo on drive.
Re: You already have a Git server
#37I have been doing this for many years. If you want a public facing "read only" ui to public repositories you can use cgit ( https://git.zx2c4.com/cgit/about/ ) to expose them. That will enable others to git clone without using ssh. I keep my private repositories private and expose a few public ones using cgit.
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Re: You already have a Git server
#38I tried this and it is never as smooth as described.
Why is GitHub popular? its not because people are "dumb" as others think.
Its because GitHub "Just Works".
You don't need obscure tribal knowledge like seba_dos1 suggests [0] or this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45711294
The official Git documentation for example has its own documentation that I failed to get work. (it is vastly different from what OP is suggesting)
The problem with software development is that not knowing such "tribal knowledge" is considered incompetence.
People don't need to deal with obscure error messages which is why they choose GitHub & why Github won.
Like the adge goes, "Technology is best when it is invisible"
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45711236
[1] https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-on-the-Server-Setting-Up-...
Re: You already have a Git server
#39I tried this and it is never as smooth as described. Why is GitHub popular? its not because people are "dumb" as others think. Its because GitHub "Just Works". You don't need obscure tribal knowledge like seba_dos1 suggests [0] or this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45711294 The official Git documentation for example has its own documentation that I failed to get work. (it is vastly different from what…
Are basic git concepts like bare repos "obscure tribal knowledge" these days? What do you think ".git" directory is?
Re: You already have a Git server
#40Maybe I'm too old, but are there people that really didn't know that any ssh access is sufficient for using git?
My way used to be in the past, put bare repos on Dropbox, clone the bare repo to a real path. Done.
That way, I
1. didn't have to worry about sync conflicts. Once complete, just push to origin 2. had my code backed up outside my computer
I can't exactly remember, if it saves space. I assumed it does, but not sure anymore. But I feel it was quite reliable.
I gave that way up with GitHub. But thinking of migrating to `Codeberg`
With `tailscale`, I feel we have so much options now, instead of putting our personal computer out on the Internet.