Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub

Re:Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub by edgyquant on Monday August 17, 2026 @03:26PM (#49336317)

It is much more complex than this to get basic GitHub functionality anyone who has tried can tell you that. It feels like it should be a simple command but it absolutely isn’t

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Re:Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub by mejutoco on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @01:41AM (#49341695)

> 4. Do you just want to host repositories?

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Re:Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub by edgyquant on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @10:27AM (#49346118)

Yes it is not so straight forward to be able to push/pull from a repository over ssh especially with multiple users etc there are a bunch of additional configs required for this

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Re:Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub by stephenway on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @12:27PM (#49348146)

once you add multiple users, bare git stops feeling "just" pretty fast. do you need reviews/CI too, or only shared access?

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