[PD] [OT]: Gitorious closing down.. alternatives, suggetions, experiences

[phil jones]

Lorenzo,

If you don't try to use the migration tool and just clone to a local
repository and then clone back into your new host, does that also mess up
the history?

Surely git by itself doesn't screw up.

Phil

On 16 April 2015 at 08:15, Lorenzo Sutton <lorenzofsutton at gmail.com> wrote:

> Some of you may be aware that gitorious.org is closing down as it's been
> acquired by Gitlab.com
>
> As I had a few things (including Pd-related e.g. Granita) on there I tried
> migrating to Gitlab with their automatic migration tool, which seems to
> have screwed committers (i.e. adding a totally unrelated user who only
> shares my first name (!))
>
> My motive to use gitorious was: a) open source b) essential, no thrills
> and just worked.
>
> I've also used Bitbucket lately and it's really nice.
>
> So what are people using these days?
> Anyone also having to migrate from Gitorious? If so what do they think?
> Just use GitHub which 'everyone else' (TM) uses and forget it?
>
> Given that even with the 'migration' tool working (and it seems it's not
> properly), migration is always a bit of a PITA (e.g. links pointing to
> Gitorious potentially broken..) I might consider something else
>
> Thaks for any ideas sharing and hope even if way off-topic this might be
> of interst to other Pd-ers.
>
> Lorenzo.
>
>
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