GitHub has always been generally a platform that doesn't align well with my and many peoples' values regarding open source software development, I only used it because it's the most popular.

Recent events regarding GitHub and its management have raised a greater consciousness about the nature of the service,so I was wondering if it would cause any problems for me to move to either:

codeberg.org
a selfhosted forgejo instance (git.phtn.app)

Or if everything is fine as is.

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[–] cole 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The magic of git is that if something happens it's trivial to switch. Honestly, I would just stick on GitHub until there's an actual reason to change. You can just do git remote set-url origin NEW_SERVER, do a git push and bam, your repo is restored with all of its history.

It's so easy to move, it's not worth worrying about imo

[–] Xylight 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Only difficult part is moving pull requests and issues.

It would be kinda funny as an excuse to run away from the issues tab though

[–] cole 0 points 3 months ago

it's not so hard. you can just link previous PRs for comments, and re-home them. you can make a PR cross-platform it just won't necessarily render right in the web UI.

git is stupid powerful. reject web UI return to email list (Linux kernel vibes)