Yes, codeberg, and it's going to be decentralized soon when forgejo implements federation

Yes, Codeberg/Forgejo or even self-hosting a git server. Git itself is decentralized and self-hostable.

@fajre @Codeberg ist "a non-profit, community-led organization that helps free and open source projects prosper. Our services include Git hosting (using @forgejo ), Weblate, Woodpecker CI and Pages."

Forgejo is an activitypub-enabled Git forge software, and codeberg is one of the largest forgejo instances.

Tangentially related, but git-annex, and, in particular, its sync subcommand are a great tool for storing files and managing git repos across multiple machines (and even just loose drives) in a "P2P" way without any centralised server

I self-host forgejo, it's one of the easiest systems I self-host.

But which features other than a plain git repo are you looking for? That will mostly determine your options. There are tons of git repos, and even just a plain git repo on a server with an ssh tunnel is enough if you don't need anything beyond that.

https://radicle.xyz/ fits your description

Maybe not exactly what you are after, but: https://sr.ht/

When I have questions like this, I tend to check this site first. You can also filter the results based on your criteria.

A lot

https://alternativeto.net/software/github/?license=opensource

Git itself is that for the DVCS part, it's easy to host and is decentralized. I haven't used it myself, but hubzilla seems to support wikis and forums in a distributed way. If you needed to, you could manage issues in forums, although it feels like there should be somethings.

• Forgejo
• Gitlab
• Gitea
• Codeberg

I'm sure there's more

No one has mentioned Gitea yet, is there a reason? Genuinely asking.

fossil-scm.org

My new favourite tool.

On server:

git init --bare ~/projects/project.git

On client:

git clone username@server:projects/project.git

GitLab, I am not sure if their own installation hits all points (depends on what you define as "big tech involvement" maybe), but if you self-host it, certainly.

Try https://tangled.sh/!

Try GitLab. They're independent and free of trackers according to Brave Shields. Though keep an eye out for the storage limits, since GitLab makes you quickly realize that, unlike GitHub, they don't have unlimited storage.

What's the benefit of a distributed git host? Are you just trying to distribute the storage costs?

I haven't tried it but Radicle sounds cool ? Radicle is an open source, peer-to-peer code collaboration stack built on Git. Unlike centralized code hosting platforms, there is no single entity controlling the network. Repositories are replicated across peers in a decentralized manner, and users are in full control of their data and workflow.

There are some dev/repo tools, but I don't know how they compare with commercial platforms.

Is there something wrong with Gitlab?

Have not used it but there is also Pijul. It's not git based and uses another diff algorithm, not fediverse.

worktree.ca

Game of Trees - https://gameoftrees.org/index.html

Not distributed but definitely meets other requirements.

I’m not a git expert. If we Primarily use private repos and use gitea why would this be good ? I presume it’s only good for public repos right?

GitHub has ads? Unless you just mean them aggressively pushing copilot, but I don’t consider that an ad.