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[–] [email protected] 28 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It doesn't have discussions, it doesn't offer pull request management with commented/annotated code reviews, it doesn't have built-in ssh and key management features, no workflows, no authorization tools of any kind...

In short I find the "just use git itself lmao" to be an exceedingly weird thing to say and I find it even weirder that it gets said as often as it does and it gets upvoted so much. Git by itself is not very useful at all if there are more than one a half people working on the same code.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

A server hosting a copy of the repo, git send-email, a mailing list and a bugzilla instance is all that an open source project really needs.

The advantage of github/gitlab et al. is that it merges all of the above functionality to one place, however it's not absolutely essential. Git itself is extremely versatile and can be as useful as you are want it to be if you put in the time to learn it.