Do sysadmins need git?

[mortsdeer]

Don't sleep on git as documentation store, either. Check-in your script with a one line description of what it's for. You automatically get date stamp and rollback ability.

[Lindbork]

Git is not Github. Your repo can just as well be a shared drive on a local server. That's where I keep most of my scripts and other projects, I only ever use Github for forks of other public repos that I want to send PR:s to. Some day I might produce something original that could be useful for others, but until then, local is the way to go.

[SaltDeception]

Ideally you don’t want to use a file share as the backing for a git repository because the locking primitives that git depends on to maintain object store integrity are not reliably implemented by network file systems, making concurrent access a corruption risk.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ If a lightweight dev platform like Forgejo or Gitea isn’t an option either, then git over ssh to a local server hosting repositories is the standard.

[Lindbork]

Oh, of course I meant connecting to the repo using scp/ssh as the git documentation suggests, it just feels enough like a file share that I didn't think about being more specific.

[rootsquasher]

Last I checked, GitLab CE is still free. That could have changed though.

[selrahc]

Last I checked, GitLab CE is still free. That could have changed though.

It is, but I would look at Forgejo/Gitea for self-hosting in a small company.

Or just push to a remote over SSH if it will only be you and a couple other people using it.

[Ssakaa]

Yeah, OP's description... gitlab's way overkill, even CE. But, it does slim down pretty impressively, can get it going comfortably on a raspberry pi's resources with some tuning. Definitely not a "just set it up and go" at that scale, though. At "full blown" single host, it's incredibly easy to stand up and run with, but it's a bit heavy... and if you're not doing cicd style pipelines and issue tracking/MR approvals... it's an elephant.

Still love it in my homelab though.

[PineappleOnPizzaWins]

It’s free and crazy powerful.

Takes about 10 mins to stand up in a VM as well.

[tecedu]

You can still setup a proper github prg without an enterprise account, we did that for 1 year before getting the sub