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[–] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 24 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

I worked at a place that just had a git on a sftp server and that was it. Worked well in a small team. Git is made for it.

Having a separate issue tracker turned out to not be a big deal at all. Theres a lot of niceties github has, but it turns out you really dont need a whole bunch to make good software.

Nowadays i would probably go with gitea or forgeo if I had to self host, but git by itself is perfectly fine.

[–] Kissaki@programming.dev 11 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Did you not do code reviews? It's the main thing I would miss. Being able to comment in-line, and manage iterations, is very valuable to me.

[–] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

We did. You bring down the branch and then discuss. We used jetbrains and it had a function like that. But it was a while back.

[–] solrize@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Gerrit still exists for that. Whether it's currently best, idk.

[–] Kissaki@programming.dev 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Gerrit is a hosted service, no?

[–] solrize@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You can self host it.

[–] Kissaki@programming.dev 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Their comment was about not having any hosted service though.

[–] solrize@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What does that even mean? If it's a service, it's a program running on some computer somewhere. Is that not hosting?

[–] Kissaki@programming.dev 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

They were talking about hosting the git repository via sftp - so bare file transfer - a bare repository. And how that was enough for them.

While that is also hosted, and hosted through a service, it's only a file transfer service and hosting.

That means specifically without a hosted service like a forge or gerrit.

Which is why I was interested in how they handle stuff that is usually done through such forges and services / hosted software.

[–] solrize@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Oh I see. The Linux kernel has been doing fine with mailing lists (LKML) for decades, if that helps.