Codeberg a GitHub Alternative from Europe

Re:Codeberg a GitHub Alternative from Europe by giobox on Monday October 17, 2022 @01:25PM (#33236836)

Can't you just run gitlab or whatever else out of a container in 5 seconds nowadays? Map a single volume and you are likely done. Its not that it's hard to self host that I choose to use third party git services (its clearly not!), it's just that the benefits of self hosting a git repository are increasingly few unless you have strict security requirements etc etc, and the free options are so good now. Running self hosted git is trivial in 2022 if you really need to, with many one-line container deployment options to choose from.

> https://registry.hub.docker.com/r/gitlab/gitlab-ce/

While it might be fun to self-host, a 5 dollar a month fee to run it is also not price competitive with the free or paid individual tiers at github.com for a single user too. I'd probably only do this if the git repo was being hosted on my home LAN.

> https://github.com/pricing

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Re:Codeberg a GitHub Alternative from Europe by jpe90 on Monday October 17, 2022 @01:43PM (#33237152)

Yeah I'm sure you could. I use that VPS for my blog and personal projects also so I wanted to keep resource utilization to a minimum and not administer a webapp.

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Re:Codeberg a GitHub Alternative from Europe by emilengler on Monday October 17, 2022 @01:56PM (#33237354)

But why? If you have an SSH server running, you can immediately setup a git server. Just do git init —-bare, no gigantic web server overhead.

https://rgz.ee/git.html

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Re:Codeberg a GitHub Alternative from Europe by nine_k on Monday October 17, 2022 @02:26PM (#33237686)

Gitlab has a nice GUI, team features, and CI/CD integration. It's a reasonable choice for a team.

I also remember the there were tools that use Git as a backend for a change review system, and for an issue-tracking system (much like the stuff which Fossil has integrated).

With that, you theoretically don't need a central server at all, as long as you can send patches to each other. In practice, a central server is an important convenience that helps keep the history synchronized between several developers.

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Re:Codeberg a GitHub Alternative from Europe by throwaway894345 on Monday October 17, 2022 @02:13PM (#33237536)

Presumably people value the UI (also, what is the "gigantic web server overhead" you're referring to?).

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Re:Codeberg a GitHub Alternative from Europe by megous on Monday October 17, 2022 @06:11PM (#33240168)

Ever tried to install gitlab? It's like 1GiB compressed package. lol

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Re:Codeberg a GitHub Alternative from Europe by layer8 on Monday October 17, 2022 @07:57PM (#33241204)

Gitea is much more lightweight.

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Re:Codeberg a GitHub Alternative from Europe by slow_typist on Monday October 17, 2022 @03:06PM (#33238133)

Yeah you could even use recent ssh clients if you leave gitea, which is written in go, out of the equation:

https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/17798

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Re:Codeberg a GitHub Alternative from Europe by bee_rider on Monday October 17, 2022 @04:34PM (#33239183)

It is easy to give people read-only git access no SSH, if you want to share your code with the internet at large?

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Re:Codeberg a GitHub Alternative from Europe by jpe90 on Monday October 17, 2022 @05:19PM (#33239640)

If you add a git-daemon-export-ok file to the repo, it's accessible read-only over the git protocol. That's how all my repos on https://git.jeskin.net are setup.

https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-on-the-Server-The-Protoco...

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Re:Codeberg a GitHub Alternative from Europe by bee_rider on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @04:57PM (#33253817)

note: Transposing "it" and "is" has made my question look sort of passive-aggressive or sarcastic, this was accidental.

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Re:Codeberg a GitHub Alternative from Europe by jpe90 on Sunday October 23, 2022 @05:15AM (#33305653)

The intent was clear from the context, no worries!

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Re:Codeberg a GitHub Alternative from Europe by mro_name on Monday October 17, 2022 @03:44PM (#33238569)

no, it's too bloaty to run it longer than the mentioned 5 seconds in good faith to not deplete the biosphere with bloat like that.

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