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Re:GitHub reinstated youtube-dl but restoring forks is appar... by comboy on Saturday April 17, 2021 @07:35PM (#26848396)
Not snarky just curious - why would you have this GOGS instance instead instead of just.. git?
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Re:GitHub reinstated youtube-dl but restoring forks is appar... by m-p-3 on Saturday April 17, 2021 @07:57PM (#26848519)
Wasn't familiar with GOGS before this post, but I guess it's just easy to put in place and you could just keep working from there if shit hits the fan?
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Re:GitHub reinstated youtube-dl but restoring forks is appar... by comboy on Saturday April 17, 2021 @08:00PM (#26848545)
But what do you need it for? Why not just have a cloned repository?
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Re:GitHub reinstated youtube-dl but restoring forks is appar... by gravypod on Saturday April 17, 2021 @08:24PM (#26848681)
For many users having an easy to browse/navigate interface is a good selling point.

This reminds me of this post about Dropbox: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

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Re:GitHub reinstated youtube-dl but restoring forks is appar... by simcop2387 on Saturday April 17, 2021 @09:27PM (#26848996)
Along with that, gogs and gitea support automatic mirroring of repositories. I know that's just a crontab wmtry away but it's got a nice ui on top of it. It also then gives you a place to push private repos and other stuff you don't want to have publically hosted.
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Re:GitHub reinstated youtube-dl but restoring forks is appar... by m-p-3 on Monday April 19, 2021 @08:49AM (#26862140)
Not sure if GOGS does it, but does a git clone also carries the issues entries and documentation from the repo?
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