[At-Risk Shares] Enumeration of Reasons to Leave Github

Zenaan Harkness zen at freedbms.net
Thu Oct 15 04:01:33 PDT 2020


On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 08:12:56PM +1000, jamesd at echeque.com wrote:
> On 2020-10-15 16:16, jamesd at echeque.com wrote:
> > All these solutions are built around git.
> > 
> > Git is fully decentralized.
> > 
> > So just share a git repository using git-daemon, gitosis, or a guest
> > account with git-shell instead of the normal shell, and call it a day.
> 
> I neglected to list the best option of them all:
> [gitolite](https://gitolite.com/gitolite/)
> 
> Gitolite allows you to easily make your repository anonymous world
> readable, and easily add
> people identified by their ssh public key and the filename of the file
> containing their public
> key write capability to certain branches and not others.
> 
> So, you give everyone working on the project their set of branches on
> your repository,
> and they can do the same on their repositories.

And it's a Debian package ftw - gitolite3

And, most absoultely fundamentally, it's NOT written in PHP (seems it could be Perl) :)


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