I use Github for many years and want to move all my repos away from it. What is a good alternative, preferably one that is easy to push? Ideally i will be cloning all my repos to hard drive and then just push to whatever service. At first glance, there are many options: Bitbucket, Gitlab, Codeberg, Gitea…etc. I will be self hosting these repos and I prefer longevity, i.e. dont want to wake up one morning to see all repos gone from the site.
Definitely Codeberg if you don’t want to self host anything
Forgejo/Codeberg. Something like that.
Yet another Gitea self-hoster here. It mimics GitHub behavior so well that it’s pretty much directly compatible with GitHub Actions and everything. It has a tool built just for mass migrating repositories.
I’m currently self hosting Gitea and have had a great experience so far. Only took a day to setup and migrate all (6) of my repositories.
I am moving from GitHub to codeberg.
But if you prefer to self host, just install forjeio on your turf.
*Forgejo
Just so OP has a chance of actually finding it.
Gitea is great for selfhosting. Small footprint, very fast, extremely capable.
I also maintain a couple of Gitlab installations at work, but it’s a lot slower and uses more resources. I mean it’s good, but it’s very much a full fat option.
Bitbucket is very old and, eww, Atlassian - the exact opposite of a selfhost friendly company.
I mean, if you simply want your code to be available somewhere so that you can access it from anywhere/have a backup, you can just not use any “service” at all. Just make a bare git repo on your server and expose it via ssh.
Only if you really need the collaboration features should you be using these kind of services, otherwise you just don’t really need them. (I would use Forgejo from Codeberg.)
You can self-host Forgejo and then also push to Codeberg.
Bitbucket, GitLab, and Gittea are too corporate. They’ll turn into SlopHub if given the chance.
Codeberg is a non-profit. And it’s growing. There are already big projects like Librewolf, Zig, Guix, and Comaps on Codeberg.
Check out onedev for a self hosted git server that includes tickets, ci/cd and security tools.
Codeberg is cozy 💛
Gitlab is a bit bloated
Bitbucket is too close to Jira for my taste
Gitea for selfhost maybe
You can back up your shit yourself and do e2ee thru gitlab there are a lotta options not a big fan of gitlab just using their shit
If you have a truly gargantuan amount of notes (e.g.orgmode and roam etc) then Git is the way to go for conflict resolution btw
