• @starshipwinepineapple@programming.dev
    11•12 days ago

    Did you read the article? The author shares their perspective.

    For me, Git is quite powerful on its own with version control, diffs, branches, merging, etc. Forges just add a UI for some of these things, and add an issue tracker/ discussion/etc. Forges also add a more modem ui for repo access though git does have its own webserver you can use. I use git without a forge for a number of my personal projects that I’m not sharing with others or not yet sharing

    • rhabarba
      -2•12 days ago

      Git is quite powerful on its own with version control, diffs, branches, merging, etc.

      All version control systems do that, hence my question.

      Git was conceived as a bazaar (because of its use for the Linux kernel), but most projects are more like cathedrals. In my opinion, Git is simply over-engineered for most projects. For projects that you don’t want to share with others, even CVS would probably suffice…

        • rhabarba
          3•12 days ago

          Mercurial is decentralised, there is no single “source of truth”. (Not counting “upstream”, of course.)

            • rhabarba
              4•12 days ago

              Both Mercurial and Git started around the same time as a replacement for BitKeeper - which also was decentralised.

      • @starshipwinepineapple@programming.dev
        5•12 days ago

        Well just speaking for myself, i use git without a forge for personal stuff because i was already familiar with git and it fits my needs. No need to learn another version control system for some basic projects i throw together