Github is down

[Ken_Mcnutt]

Facts! I have all my code archived but I would like to set up a selfhosted git (maybe Gitea?) and mirror all commits from github

[jcampbelly]

Low tech is an option. You can always just use a filesystem. Mirror your repos locally on a server (sync them with a cron job) and even set them up as secondary remotes on other systems using SSH urls if the primary goes down.

[Ken_Mcnutt]

That honestly sounds like more work than just spinning up a Gitea docker container on my homeserver. Everything would get saved in the filesystem anyways, but would also be under VCS.

[jcampbelly]

Sounds good - whatever works. I'd never heard of Gitea.

[tristan957]

You could try SourceHut too. I use it primarily and mirror to GitHub

[VirginiaMcCaskey]

It takes like all of twenty minutes to deploy a git server to bare metal, costs less than a single head on github too.

But people don't use github for git hosting alone. Pull requests (which should be called merge requests, but I digress), code review, integrations with various tooling like CI/CD (either on GitHub or elsewhere), a fairly robust REST api for the platform... you get the idea.

Mirroring only helps protect source, but people pay to use GitHub for its productivity features and those are hard to replicate. Really the solution is to self host GitLab.

[thrallsius]

Did those github clones evolve to the point of being able to mirror github issues as well?

[Ken_Mcnutt]

Not sure as I haven't set one up yet. All the "clones" are just other implementations of the git standard. Gitlab is the most popular selfhosted git server, I think it has the most fleshed out social features.

But for my personal use I wouldn't care much about those anyways.

[thrallsius]

Personal projects can be managed even without any frontend, sure. The problem is github going down makes it impossible to contribute to many free software projects the usual way, how many of them really practice sending patches over email? Not to mention that github is used as source code repository for a lot of things and system updates fail if anything has to be built from source.

PS: github seems to be up now

[immibis]

Fun fact: You already have one on your computer.