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Gogs/gogs: Gogs is a painless self-hosted Git service

43 points by axiomdata316 8y ago

saagarjha 8y ago
Is it just me, or do all of these services end up looking like GitHub? Like, I get offering similar functionality, but these are so similar in how they look that I’m surprised that GitHub isn’t at least mildly annoyed…
- ve55 8y ago
  They're all trying to present the same information. Just as every video site looks like Youtube with video thumbnails, titles, search, comments, etc, it's just the best way we have to display some styles of information. Github seems to be doing just fine, self-hosted software rarely takes much market share from the giants.
  - alangpierce 8y ago
    From the screenshots at https://gogs.io https://gogs.io , it looks like the UI was directly taken from GitHub. See https://gogs.io/img/screenshots/2.png https://gogs.io/img/screenshots/2.png in particular. The watch/star/fork UI is exactly the same, the branch picker, the choice of HTTPS vs SSH to the top right of the file list, the book with a bookmark icon. This definitely looks like a GitHub clone, not a git host that happens have a similar UI because it's solving the same problem.
xellisx 8y ago
I personally like Gitea.
- PaulBGD_ 8y ago
  I personally have been running Gitea for over a year, painless to use and each iteration gets better. I've reported a few bugs that get fixed pretty quickly with good response from the team. Definitely recommend anyone looking for a self-hosted git solution to consider it over gogs.
- medecau 8y ago
  Is there an equivalent Gitea player in the Continuous Integration/Test Runner space? Single binary, SQLite backed, low resource consumption, simple to run, simple to use.
  - witten 8y ago
    https://drone.io/ https://drone.io/ is probably the closest to that, although not exactly that. It can even be integrated with Gitea.
- icholy 8y ago
  Gitea is gogs.
  - shakna 8y ago
    Gitea has diverged considerably, at least in feature coverage.
ocdtrekkie 8y ago
I find it somewhat ironic that a GitHub competitor is using GitHub as it's Git service. I recognize they probably want the community benefits of it... but that likely explains to their potential users why they might also rather use GitHub.
- Buttons840 8y ago
  We're fortunate these DVCS systems, like git, allow us to easily use GitHub and Gogs together; more than "allow", encourage.
dang 8y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18422931 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18422931

43 points by axiomdata316 8y ago

Is it just me, or do all of these services end up looking like GitHub? Like, I get offering similar functionality, but these are so similar in how they look that I’m surprised that GitHub isn’t at least mildly annoyed…

ve55 8y ago
They're all trying to present the same information. Just as every video site looks like Youtube with video thumbnails, titles, search, comments, etc, it's just the best way we have to display some styles of information. Github seems to be doing just fine, self-hosted software rarely takes much market share from the giants.
- alangpierce 8y ago
  From the screenshots at https://gogs.io https://gogs.io , it looks like the UI was directly taken from GitHub. See https://gogs.io/img/screenshots/2.png https://gogs.io/img/screenshots/2.png in particular. The watch/star/fork UI is exactly the same, the branch picker, the choice of HTTPS vs SSH to the top right of the file list, the book with a bookmark icon. This definitely looks like a GitHub clone, not a git host that happens have a similar UI because it's solving the same problem.

xellisx 8y ago

I personally like Gitea.

PaulBGD_ 8y ago
I personally have been running Gitea for over a year, painless to use and each iteration gets better. I've reported a few bugs that get fixed pretty quickly with good response from the team. Definitely recommend anyone looking for a self-hosted git solution to consider it over gogs.
medecau 8y ago
Is there an equivalent Gitea player in the Continuous Integration/Test Runner space? Single binary, SQLite backed, low resource consumption, simple to run, simple to use.
- witten 8y ago
  https://drone.io/ https://drone.io/ is probably the closest to that, although not exactly that. It can even be integrated with Gitea.
icholy 8y ago
Gitea is gogs.
- shakna 8y ago
  Gitea has diverged considerably, at least in feature coverage.

ocdtrekkie 8y ago

I find it somewhat ironic that a GitHub competitor is using GitHub as it's Git service. I recognize they probably want the community benefits of it... but that likely explains to their potential users why they might also rather use GitHub.

Buttons840 8y ago
We're fortunate these DVCS systems, like git, allow us to easily use GitHub and Gogs together; more than "allow", encourage.

dang 8y ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18422931 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18422931