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I'm not talking about the fancy tools. I'm talking about just serving Git repositories, not about web applications. GitHub is distributing your Git repository

I'm not talking about the fancy tools. I'm talking about just serving Git repositories, not about web applications. GitHub is distributing your Git repository across multiple servers in multiple racks in real time for reliability and availability and is the world's largest Git repository hosting provider. Some nice conference talks discuss this, like from Git Merge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7ecUqHxD7o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7ecUqHxD7o and GitHub Universe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DY0yNRNkYb0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DY0yNRNkYb0 Visual Studio Team Services is hosting your Git repository across Azure, and is hosting the world's largest Git repositories. https://arstechnica.co.uk/information-technology/2017/02/microsoft-hosts-the-windows-source-in-a-monstrous-300gb-git-repository/ https://arstechnica.co.uk/information-technology/2017/02/mic... I have my own Git server as well, and I agree that its maintenance isn't very demanding. But I'm not putting production bits on it. My open source repositories go to GitHub and my private repositories go to VSTS - they're providing a level of service that I simply can't match by myself.

hamburglar 9y ago
I'm not talking about putting production bits on my own git server, either. I'm talking about how easy it is to create a couple of personal remotes just as a second and third copy of whatever I happen to be working on on my laptop. One goes to my NAS and one goes to my rackspace VM that I keep around for random projects. I have github and bitbucket accounts, but for little projects, I much prefer the simplicity of effectively just having dupes of my repos on other machines of mine. And it's really nice that the way I interact with them is precisely the way I'd interact with github or repositories at work, despite the fact that they're just directories sitting behind an ssh connection.

hamburglar 9y ago

I'm not talking about putting production bits on my own git server, either. I'm talking about how easy it is to create a couple of personal remotes just as a second and third copy of whatever I happen to be working on on my laptop. One goes to my NAS and one goes to my rackspace VM that I keep around for random projects. I have github and bitbucket accounts, but for little projects, I much prefer the simplicity of effectively just having dupes of my repos on other machines of mine. And it's really nice that the way I interact with them is precisely the way I'd interact with github or repositories at work, despite the fact that they're just directories sitting behind an ssh connection.