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Re: github is not git, was sr.ht --- "sir hat" --- alternatives to Github

lloyd.wood@yahoo.co.uk Mon, 28 January 2019 22:41 UTC

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Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2019 22:40:50 +0000
From: lloyd.wood@yahoo.co.uk
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>, John Levine <johnl@taugh.com>
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Subject: Re: github is not git, was sr.ht --- "sir hat" --- alternatives to Github
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is there an open-source alternative to Clippy?
if there is, bet it requires gnome...


Lloyd Woodlloyd.wood@yahoo.co,uk

On Tuesday, January 29, 2019, 08:43, Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> wrote:

>> The charter explicitly calls out Github, rather than the more general
>> git.
> Github is not the same as git.

which is why lloyd is questioning it being cemented in teh charter

> It does all sorts of stuff that a generic git server does not do.

yep, a whole gui.

but, we're say we're flying the open source flag, and github is closed
source owned by a well-known monster monopoly known for bending and
breaking standards (i have to bleeping use exchange in $dayjb) and a
paperclip avatar.

> People use github because they use the features generic servers don't
> have.

there are open source alternatives, e.g. gogs.

randy

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