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Git without a forge
[Simon Tatham, 2025-03-05] I’ve written quite a lot of free software in my life. Most of it was from scratch: projects I started myself.
That doesn’t sound like a good thing, but it does give email clients the best chance of transferring them completely unchanged, without trying to be clever (character set conversion, ‘helpfully’ rewrapping long lines). So, for all those reasons, I prefer a single binary git bundle citing its parent commit to a handful of text patch files. If you want to take back control of your project by moving it to another instance of the same system (perhaps even setting up your own), you can do that with Gitlab – migrating all your bug records along with the git repository – but not with Github.
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