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  • mesa@lemmy.worldtoProgramming@programming.devGit without a forge
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    4 days ago

    The biggest thing git does is one person can get one or many branches (AKA version control) on ANY machine. They all act like they are the source of truth. CVS/Mercurial/etc…all have the issue that they expect to be on one machine as the source of truth. And if that machine ever goes down…

    Before git (ya im old), I used a plethora of services like git. There were times back then when a server was down and the history…was just gone.


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    I worked at a place that just had a git on a sftp server and that was it. Worked well in a small team. Git is made for it.

    Having a separate issue tracker turned out to not be a big deal at all. Theres a lot of niceties github has, but it turns out you really dont need a whole bunch to make good software.

    Nowadays i would probably go with gitea or forgeo if I had to self host, but git by itself is perfectly fine.