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For a long time I've owned a premium GitHub account and would roll my eyes at colleagues who insisted on using GitLab, as I felt that GitHub had a clearly super

by evouga 5y ago

For a long time I've owned a premium GitHub account and would roll my eyes at colleagues who insisted on using GitLab, as I felt that GitHub had a clearly superior user experience. I have to say, though, that every time in recent memory that GitHub has popped up in the news, it's for something that's made me sigh. The only thing still keeping me one of their customers is the painfulness of transferring over all of my existing repositories. You are, of course, entirely right: GitHub shouldn't be banning users for pushing code to their own repository (with the exception of if the commit contains copyrighted or illegal material, which clearly is not the case here), nor under any circumstances should they be commandeering their user's code and continuing to distribute it without the user's consent.

asddubs 5y ago
gitea seems pretty nice, but you have to host it yourself
- selfhoster11 5y ago
  Codeberg.org is a non-profit organisation that hosts Gitea for free. Even if you do want to set up your own instance, it's very easy to do so. It's one of the least resource-intensive server applications I've seen - roughly 200-300 MB of RAM used on most days, minimal background CPU usage, statically linked Go binary or a Docker container according to preference. A Raspberry Pi with a few hundred megs of spare RAM or a sub $5 VPS will be sufficient.
CRConrad 5y ago
> The only thing still keeping me one of their customers is the painfulness of transferring over all of my existing repositories. What's so painful about "git clone"? Oh, you mean you've locked yourself into GH by using some of their proprietary extensions, that isn't present in vanilla git? But how is this even possible? Whenever someone dares claim that Microsoft never abandoned its old "EEE" strategy ("Extend" being the middle of the three Es), legions of HNers always rush to defend them and praise their conversion to Good Guys!

by evouga 5y ago

asddubs 5y ago

gitea seems pretty nice, but you have to host it yourself

selfhoster11 5y ago
Codeberg.org is a non-profit organisation that hosts Gitea for free. Even if you do want to set up your own instance, it's very easy to do so. It's one of the least resource-intensive server applications I've seen - roughly 200-300 MB of RAM used on most days, minimal background CPU usage, statically linked Go binary or a Docker container according to preference. A Raspberry Pi with a few hundred megs of spare RAM or a sub $5 VPS will be sufficient.

CRConrad 5y ago

> The only thing still keeping me one of their customers is the painfulness of transferring over all of my existing repositories. What's so painful about "git clone"? Oh, you mean you've locked yourself into GH by using some of their proprietary extensions, that isn't present in vanilla git? But how is this even possible? Whenever someone dares claim that Microsoft never abandoned its old "EEE" strategy ("Extend" being the middle of the three Es), legions of HNers always rush to defend them and praise their conversion to Good Guys!