HACKER Q&A
📣 _benj

GitHub Alternatives?


With all the fuzz that GitHub’s copilot has made and me realizing once again that nothing is free (I feel like I’m GitHub’s product…) I’ve been considering some alternatives. I’m aware of the obvious ones like gitlab or bitbucket and some not that known like sr.ht

Am I the only one looking for alternatives? Do you guys have any experiences/recommendations in this?

Thanks

  👤 luke2m Accepted Answer ✓
Something hosted by yourself or someone you trust. Try Gitea [1] and see if you like it.

[1] https://try.gitea.io/

👤 BJBBB
Once again, I dunno. My observation is that non-software industries are leery of git. My last four clients have all used svn or hg. So am guessing that it depends on the need for centralized control and who you have available to run these systems.

I do mostly hardware engineering -code is a secondary by-product. So my tools poorly represent what most of you need. For my colleagues and myself, Hg is it where distributed stuff is required. For my personal stuff, svn is it.

👤 blmayer
I know these hosted git services:

- https://notabug.org - https://sr.ht

I tried them both, the second one has many interesting features.

👤 sdevonoes
What's the use?

I do have a GitHub account with code that it's supposed to be "open source"... but in all honesty no one will ever use it (left aside collaborate and open PRs). So, I was thinking: why do I need to publish my code in GitHub/GitLab/sr.ht/etc? What's the use? I came to realise that it's just hype. Pushing code to GitHub/GitLab make sense only for those few developers who actually produce useful stuff; for the rest of us it's just a fad.

👤 austincheney
Gitlab.
👤 pickle-wizard
We use Azure DevOps at work. I like it enough that I use it for my personal stuff also. They do have a free tier, but even if you need the paid services, the price is reasonable.
👤 runawaybottle
Off the top of my head:

- Gitlab

- Bitbucket

- Beanstalk

👤 mgn01
https://www.jetbrains.com/space/
👤 MilnerRoute
SourceForge.