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Does Gitea support some kind of federation / cross-instance PRs? That's the main thing I'd miss from a self-hosted instance, the ease of getting contributions.

by dbrgn 5y ago

Does Gitea support some kind of federation / cross-instance PRs? That's the main thing I'd miss from a self-hosted instance, the ease of getting contributions. After all, you don't even need Gitea for pure Git hosting. If you have a server with SSH access, just init a bare repo in a directory, push to that, and you're ready to go. No web UI needed. The reason I'm still using GitHub is not code hosting. It's collaboration.

dbrgn 5y ago
It seems there's a tracking issue here, but it seems stalled: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/1612 https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/1612
tokumei 5y ago
> If you have a server with SSH access, just init a bare repo in a directory, push to that, and you're ready to go. No web UI needed. Used to do that years ago for my personal projects. Honestly does the trick.
brimble 5y ago
Gitea gets you: a nice GitHub-like web GUI, including for stuff like managing users; 2FA; some integrations; web hooks without having to add git-hooks to all your repos; and extremely-useful-to-some-projects features like git-lfs support. If you don't want or need those things, bare git repos are fine and certainly easier to support (not that Gitea's that hard, though a few issues/PRs I've noticed have caused me more than a little concern about the overall quality of the project).
encryptluks2 5y ago
But by using GitHub for "collaboration" you are sacrificing decentralization.
- mst 5y ago
  Absolutely, and I genuinely hate that. But for new open source projects of mine the ease of contribution and user expectation of a github repository are a trade-off worth making even so (I also maintain a self hosted master git repo that I consider the source of truth to -me- but these days it syncs from, rather than to, github, just because of the trade-offs involved).
  - encryptluks2 5y ago
    And in return you are sacrificing your code and contributors to a Microsoft-based privacy policy. GitLab is better but still not ideal.

by dbrgn 5y ago

dbrgn 5y ago

It seems there's a tracking issue here, but it seems stalled: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/1612 https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/1612

tokumei 5y ago

> If you have a server with SSH access, just init a bare repo in a directory, push to that, and you're ready to go. No web UI needed. Used to do that years ago for my personal projects. Honestly does the trick.

brimble 5y ago

Gitea gets you: a nice GitHub-like web GUI, including for stuff like managing users; 2FA; some integrations; web hooks without having to add git-hooks to all your repos; and extremely-useful-to-some-projects features like git-lfs support. If you don't want or need those things, bare git repos are fine and certainly easier to support (not that Gitea's that hard, though a few issues/PRs I've noticed have caused me more than a little concern about the overall quality of the project).

encryptluks2 5y ago

But by using GitHub for "collaboration" you are sacrificing decentralization.

mst 5y ago
Absolutely, and I genuinely hate that. But for new open source projects of mine the ease of contribution and user expectation of a github repository are a trade-off worth making even so (I also maintain a self hosted master git repo that I consider the source of truth to -me- but these days it syncs from, rather than to, github, just because of the trade-offs involved).
- encryptluks2 5y ago
  And in return you are sacrificing your code and contributors to a Microsoft-based privacy policy. GitLab is better but still not ideal.