Which is your favorite Version Control site?

1    01 Oct 2019 17:50 by u/user9713

Just wanted to know what you guys use. I have most of my stuff on BitBucket. I would prefer to go with GitHub, but I don't out of protest. Besides, BitBucket was offering free private repos when GitHub was just free public repos.

13 comments

0 u/sakuramboo 01 Oct 2019 18:05

gitlab

0 u/HbMcNutt 01 Oct 2019 18:08

Whats a repo?

0 u/shitface9000 01 Oct 2019 18:54

Something programmers use

0 u/HbMcNutt 01 Oct 2019 19:15

To do what exactly? Im curious about programming

0 u/shitface9000 01 Oct 2019 19:38

Seatch for “version control system repository”

0 u/user9713 [OP] 01 Oct 2019 22:41

This explains it, assuming you know the terminology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GitHub#Scope

If you don't, DYOR.

0 u/libman 01 Oct 2019 20:00

In the beginning we had FTP, and it was good!

I edited source code on a plain file-system. Every once in a while, I'd make a compressed copy of a project to save to floppy disk, and dump it online so my IRC friends could download, something like:

ftp://libman.org/software/My_Cool_RPG_Where_U_Kill_Commies/src/19930101.tgz

And when you'd have something worth showing off you'd link to it on Usenet, etc.

Then a bunch of hipsters came along and invented stupid crap like cvs, www, git, hub... Bah humbug!

0 u/Dupinstein 01 Oct 2019 20:25

Not sure if you're being sarcastic... git was not invented by "hipsters". Git and other version control systems are the best way to collaborate on big projects and sync them across multiple computers. Just transferring files is a nightmare. You can't work on them at the same time and resolve conflicts, and you don't have a history of changes.

0 u/libman 01 Oct 2019 23:30

Obviously sarcastic. I can code, but I never learned to "collaborate" very well...

0 u/J_Darnley 01 Oct 2019 18:24

Gitlab are the only similar alternative (or clone) of Github that I have used. They are good in terms of technology and whatnot, their politics leave a little to be desired. I'm not that familiar with other services. Personally I prefer self-hosted gits by other projects. Ones that don't encourage stupid, complicated history like Github (and Gitlab) with pull requests. I run gitolite on my NAS to share some stuff locally. A self-hosted Gitlab instance is becoming popular. Videolan already uses it and I think I read KDE were moving that way too. I ran my own too but became fed-up with the ten thousand programs and deps that it installs outside my package manager.

0 u/psimonster 01 Oct 2019 19:47

I use BitBucket.

0 u/libman 01 Oct 2019 19:48

I'm on hiatus from coding, meditating under a tree, until my philosophy is 100% perfect...

But it will probably involve self-hosting your code, probably on something based on IPFS...

0 u/3dk 01 Oct 2019 20:13

One more thing worth mentioning: there's a free + open-source clone of github for self-hosting, gitea.