Yes, that’s true for the git repo itself, but a git forge can provide a multitude of related services, including issues and pull request management, CI/CD pipelines, wikis, static content hosting, package registries, etc. which are not as easily migrated.
That’s the genius of git: it’s not tied to any website. Pull your repo from here and push it to there and you’re cooking.
Git forges provides a lot of features these days now. From Merge requests, forks, issues tracking, secret branches, to team management stuff.
A lot more stuff gets bolted onto but they are arguably more optional but for some are the point lol
Like ci/cd at the forge level is the best to me for dev centric flows
The website around it is also just optional. You can dump git repos anywhere you want.
Of course the website is helpful and adds tooling, bit it’s an extra nonetheless
Yep, amazingly flexible. If Linus had only ever made git, he’d have gone down as one of the greats.
As opposed to also having made the most used kernel in the world?
They’re saying he was already famous and then did another thing that would make a person famous.
It is a weird phrasing then!
Yes, that’s true for the git repo itself, but a git forge can provide a multitude of related services, including issues and pull request management, CI/CD pipelines, wikis, static content hosting, package registries, etc. which are not as easily migrated.