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Re:GitHub blocks entire company because one employee was in ... by ogre_codes on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @11:46AM (#25647359)
> Spinning up your own git server is not a huge effort though even for a startup.

At a previous job we self hosted Git and it worked fairly well. At my current job we use GitHub and while we could migrate away, it would hurt.

Personally, I think GitHub's value is more about the fact that it integrates so well with so many other services. Without GitHub we would lose:

- Most of our PR/ Code Review flow

- Integration with Pivotal (our ticketing/ story system)

- Integration with our Travis server for CI

- Integration with our hosting service for automated deployment.

All of this stuff can be done independent of GitHub, but most of it takes a lot of time and effort you could be spent delivering the product you are trying to ship. You also lose a lot of flexibility.

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Re:GitHub blocks entire company because one employee was in ... by oytis on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @05:25AM (#25656377)
Yes, integrations are a real value. I've seen a lot of it working in self-hosted Gerrit, but there was a dedicated maintainer for the project who among other things implemented these.
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