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by iamdamian 304 days ago
Forgejo is a really great self-hosted alternative to GitHub.

If you've wondered about hosting your own version of GitHub but have worried it's too hard to set up, I'd encourage you to spend even a few minutes spinning an instance up with Docker Compose and poking around.

https://forgejo.org/docs/latest/admin/installation/docker/
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tonymet 303 days ago
Self hosting is a great idea. I’m curious which web features you find most useful? Is it primarily about PRs and code review?

I’m trying to think of what a bare minimum SSH remote experience would look like. Could you do code reviews with a terminal instead.

I love the git SSH experience for speed, but I find myself using GitHub for the PRs & code review. It would be nice to have a self hosted , terminal-based solution

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GabeIsko 303 days ago
How is forejo's git LFS support? I self host gitea (from before the split) but I am considering making the switch. LFS is a must for me though.
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gschoeni 303 days ago
How big are your datasets? Working on an Open Source git-lfs replacement called "oxen" if you are interested.

https://github.com/Oxen-AI/Oxen

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GabeIsko 302 days ago
Not working with datasets. Binary files aren't that large, and these tools are generally bad for my use case - because I am not concerned about datasets.

I need to track changes in binary files of very reasonable size. Total repo size is <1GB. But even at these small memory requirements it makes much more sense to self host with LFS. I have written this up too many times on the internet to go into great detail about how LFS isn't perfect and how I wish there was something better, but in practice it has worked extremely well for tracking a small amount of binary files. Kudos to the devs.

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dev_hugepages 303 days ago
How does it compare to huggingface's Xet?
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