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[–] 51 points 1 week ago (3 children)

long past time. what's taking people so long

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  • [–] 16 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    what’s taking people so long

    besides the fact that there's no decent alternative for workloads of a certain size/scale?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    What is missing from GitLab?

    A platform that is down for almost a whole day every month does not seem like a decent alternative for those workloads

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  • [+] -6 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    If you have to ask the question, you haven't made a serious comparison of the two.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    No, I have just migrated my company to self-hosted GL and found a better experience with literally no downsides.

    I think it is a fair question, because I really don't see what could be the deal-breaker. Is it copilot, or the terrible GitHub actions?

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  • [+] -14 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    You don't see the deal breaker because your requirements are clearly low enough that open-core software works for your use case. Your experience is not universal. Your inexperience is leading you to believe you're more knowledgeable than you really are. I don't need to explain myself to someone that engages in bad faith arguments.

    Let me guess, you chose Gitlab because you're a DHH fanboy?

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  • [–] 9 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    You're spending more effort to be a smug prick than it would take to just rattle off an example or three. Sounds more to me like you don't know what the fuck you're talking about and just want to publicly stroke your... Ego.

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  • [+] -10 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    "Sounds to me like..."

    Nobody asked you? Why do we care what you think?

    Sounds to me like you're insecure and looking for a free handout instead of being able to come up with a coherent reason for why you're owed something you've not earned.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Nobody asked you? Why do we care what you think?

    Nobody asked you in particular, either, but here we are like 3-4 replies deep anyway. Even if we had, you've refused to answer so you can act like a smug cunt instead, so you'd apparently be useless at it anyway.

    Sounds to me like you're insecure and looking for a free handout instead of being able to come up with a coherent reason for why you're owed something you've not earned.

    My guy, then just shut the fuck up. You don't have to use it as an opportunity to grandstand and fellate yourself for being so smart to get it. You could just say nothing if you don't want to actually contribute. Honestly, you've been worse than useless here.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 week ago*

    You're spending an awful lot of time telling me I don't get to reply to comments off my own thread. Maybe stop and realize that my original comment didn't need any replies and y'all are the ones wasting your time and energy arguing downthread instead of getting smart enough to go start your own thread if you want to express yourself.

    It's 2026, not 1996. Its time to grow up and learn how threaded conversations work. They aren't new. It's awful weird that you're struggling so much with the concept.

    But sure. Keep screeching "STFU" like a child. I'm sure that somehow, somewhere, someone on the internet might actually listen to you. But that someone is not me. I don't listen to the demands of children.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Not the person, but get off your high horse, and either explain what you mean, or shut up.

    Thats a lot of words to say nothing of value.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    That's a lot of words over two comments to avoid answering a simple question

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  • [–] -5 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Thanks for continuing to put your inexperience on display. If you're so certain you're right, you don't need my answer.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago*

    You're getting blasted for some reason lol

    To add some context, GitHub's primary strength is integrating different services. GitLab's primary strength is being "the one thing" that you use. It really depends on your business which one makes most strategic sense. For small to medium, GitLab is great. Even large it can work amazingly.

    However, I'll put my anecdotal two cents in and say that GitHub comes out ahead for very large enterprises, or if you do collaborative, or Business 2 Business stuff, just because of it's integrations. Integrations are king once you get to scale. If you're using GitLab + anything else, it's friction for each additional tool you use, rather than a force multiplier. At a certain point it restricts you.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 week ago

    Decentralisation. I don't want to fall in the same trap picking a huge platform which can only be ran by a large entity. Federation in Forgejo is taking quite long.

    We made a PoC on top of Solid which does work so it is clearly possible, but the code quality is too low to trust the solution.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Perhaps we should use git in the distributed manner it was designed

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  • [–] 5 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Yeah, too many people don't know about having multiple remotes

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago (1 child)

    One thing, any chance you've heard of a way to have two remotes, one basically ignored gitignore (personal self-hosted storage) vs front-facing with github or similar?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago

    Hmm not natively but I think you could hack something together using git plumbing, perhaps just some hooks. I would still advise against adding secrets to version control even if it stays completely local though, it's still "bad hygiene" and something you should try to avoid. You don't need to go with a full-fledged secret management solution, just keep your secrets in .envs or similar external files and use a password manager to store your live keys. Of course it all depends on the specific context, if it's something bound to loopback I'm not going to stop you from running admin:admin and committing that to your personal docker-compose stash, but if it's protecting something you care about don't put it in git.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 week ago

    I think it was time on October 26, 2018.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Why even rely on a web interface for git, just use git

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  • [–] 8 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Pull requests and issue trackers

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  • [+] -6 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    I can do a pull request via email

    Why do issue trackers need to be connected?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Genuinely, pull requests being off platform without good integrated diff and merge conflict resolution tooling just doesn't work at a certain scale.

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    I would argue that Linux kernel scale basically doesn't work. It is a huge barrier to would-be developers to get into. You might argue that's a feature, but it's pretty hard to argue that it doesn't add a lot of friction to the process

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago

    Reason #74 to do so

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