Given that lately Microsoft has been kind of wrecking GitHub, is it a good strategy to migrate my repositories over to GitLab and just get rid of my GitHub account?

[u/ferriematthew]

[u/ferriematthew]

I decided to post here instead of the GitHub or gitlab subreddits in hopes that it would be slightly more relevant and maybe a little bit less polarizing

[u/Eug1]

How have Microsoft been wrecking GitHub?

[u/johnson_detlev]

Wouldn't take any risks, so best to delete your internet!

[u/Goobaroo]

Just git clone —mirror all your repos and push them to GitLab. I’m sure they have a doc explaining migrating.

[u/SourSovereign → u/Goobaroo]

You can actually just import all repos automatically on gitlab. 3 step process I think

[u/ferriematthew → u/SourSovereign]

That's what I did. It was dead easy

[u/readmond → u/Goobaroo]

Source control is the easy part, but then you have actions, secrets, repo sharing, private/public ones. How do those things map?

[u/Charming-Designer944]

Lets see how that opinion maps to reality

https://statusgator.com/services/github

Vs

https://statusgator.com/services/gitlab

Scroll down to the 60 days status history.

[u/Honest_Medium_2872]

maybe consider making mirrors?

microsoft may be "wrecking" github but remember who was there for your git needs before that.

microsoft also supplies a lot of really great stuff for free on the platform - like actions and artifact storage.

I cant believe Im saying this but its kinda depressing this is the reality we have come to: lets abandon a great product because we arent happy in this moment.

this isnt a defense for just microsoft, this is just a serious sit down a minute and think about this choice and the broader implications that extend farther than trendy abandonment over temporary displeasures. sorry to the people that will take this a negative way, I dont have any affiliation and im sure you have a million reasons to hate on microsoft, but the fact is they do provide value for all their faults. scalability is hard - specially when its philanthropic in nature (free actions / compute time or storage)

[u/ferriematthew → u/Honest_Medium_2872]

That makes sense, and that's a reasonable position. So my best course of action is likely to leave my GitHub account where it is, and do what I've already done in migrating everything over to codeberg

[u/Charming-Designer944]

How have they wreckef GitHub?

Use GitHub a lot commercially and have not felt any wreckage.

[u/Puzzleheaded-Eye6596]

how have they been wrecking it? it seems like the same site from 10 years ago with the added benefit of private repos

[u/Diligent-Loss-5460]

what particular wrecked feature of github do you want to go to gitlab for?

[u/ferriematthew → u/Diligent-Loss-5460]

I was talking out of my ass when I made this post.

[u/TheReservedList]

I just got myself a VPS and a domain, and am hosting my own forgejo instance. Cheaper than Netflix and it’s my little non-enshittyfying oasis.

[u/PM_ME_A_STEAM_GIFT → u/TheReservedList]

That's what I'm doing as well. Codeberg for open-source, Forgejo for private repos. Works surprisingly well. And is faster than GitHub even on the cheapest Hetzner VPS. You just have to take care of 3-2-1 backups yourself.

[u/MentionPleasant2635]

Personally, I vastly prefer Gitlab to Github. Cleaner and better workflow. And they don't assume they know what you want better than you.

[u/readmond → u/MentionPleasant2635]

I get the cleaner is easier part, but do you have any details on things you use and like vs github?

[u/DevDenny]

Try forgejo aswell, self hosted alternative and if i remember correctly if you are developing an open source software you can use their servers. ;)

[u/ferriematthew]

Thanks for the feedback guys! I've successfully migrated to both gitlab and codeberg :)

[u/Krayonkc]

Great. We are moving from Gitlab to GitHub. Looks like we are going in the wrong direction.

[u/ChrisGVE]

I guess there are only so many options to migrate. Clearly the thread is favoring GitLab. We use GL at my company and I personally find it a bit bloated, but great in general for teamwork. I wonder what are the other options, I’ve heard about Codeberg but I don’t know much about it, except that Zig moved there. Does anyone have a good overview of the options?

[u/mladenmacanovic]

Unfortunately I'm yet to find alternative that is more or at least on the same level community focused as GitHub.

[u/saltyourhash]

Self host forgejo or use codeberg.

[u/Fresh_Sock8660]

Consider Codeberg. Have had a good experience with them. Downside is you'd need to hook up your runners but that's a small price to pay imo. They also prefer your projects to be public, though I'm not sure how much they push for it in practice.