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GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out. (www.businessinsider.com)
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[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 40 points 2 days ago (3 children)

At some previous jobs, the newer devs would sometimes confuse the two. Its a real thing.

Me I lived through svn, mercerial, and file vault. So glad we ended up with git as the protocol.

Hell you can set up a git + file server and just use it without any Hub (Hob/lab/berg) if your bare metal enough. It works.

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago (2 children)

You can literally run a single command to setup a remote git repository on a server that has ssh.

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 14 points 2 days ago

Yep! And some emulators only do dev work that way now. N*ntendo made sure of that.

[–] josefo@leminal.space 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Like, really? God I feel stupid if it's that easy

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Yup

git init --bare test_repo.git

If you can ssh into it, you should be able to add that just like any other remote to your local git.

You can clone local repos from your filesystem as well. There's really not a lot of magic to it which is what makes it so cool.

[–] josefo@leminal.space 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

sorry if I'm extra stupid with these questions, but how you add that as a remote then?

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

git remote add origin ssh://<<username>>@<<host>>/path/to/test_repo.git

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

The Linux kernel still works off emailing patches. If such a large project doesn't need a central repo, you don't either.

I use self-hosted Forgejo because it's convenient, that's it

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It does technically have a central repo, but not the "forge" tooling around it.

I do think I'm going to move my personal shit to self-hosted Forgejo too though. One project of mine is going to be closed source (don't boo me, there's literally no demand for "free" in that market, the target market generally isn't interested in programming or hosting) and I don't want the business logic side of it to magically end up in their AI models despite me refusing to allow them. Couldn't care less about any of the other stuff, I'm not doing anything super high tech or special.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

Yeah, there's git.kernel.org, but work happens on the mailing list, not there. If you just want a copy, you can get it there, but that'd about all there is too it.

[–] Glitchvid@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

I mean I would've preferred Hg.

But to the point, I think GitHub has been instrumental in the success of Git.