What is a good alternative to move away from Github?

2026-05-27 15:34 UTC

I use Github for many years and want to move all my repos away from it. What is a good alternative, preferably one that is easy to push? Ideally i will be cloning all my repos to hard drive and then just push to whatever service. At first glance, there are many options: Bitbucket, Gitlab, Codeberg, Gitea…etc. I will be self hosting these repos and I prefer longevity, i.e. dont want to wake up one morning to see all repos gone from the site.

Replies (9)

@Azzu@leminal.space 2026-05-27 15:50

I mean, if you simply want your code to be available somewhere so that you can access it from anywhere/have a backup, you can just not use any “service” at all. Just make a bare git repo on your server and expose it via ssh. Only if you really need the collaboration features should you be using these kind of services, otherwise you just don’t really need them. (I would use Forgejo from Codeberg.)

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@thericofactor@sh.itjust.works 2026-05-27 16:20

Check out onedev for a self hosted git server that includes tickets, ci/cd and security tools.

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@Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 2026-05-27 16:39

I am moving from GitHub to codeberg. But if you prefer to self host, just install forjeio on your turf.

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@uuj8za@piefed.social 2026-05-27 17:07

You can self-host Forgejo and then also push to Codeberg. Bitbucket, GitLab, and Gittea are too corporate. They’ll turn into SlopHub if given the chance. Codeberg is a non-profit. And it’s growing. There are already big projects like Librewolf, Zig, Guix, and Comaps on Codeberg.

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@M33@piefed.world 2026-05-27 17:40

Codeberg is cozy 💛 Gitlab is a bit bloated. Bitbucket is too close to Jira for my taste. Gitea for selfhost maybe

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@otacon239@lemmy.world 2026-05-27 18:20

I’m currently self hosting Gitea and have had a great experience so far. Only took a day to setup and migrate all (6) of my repositories.

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@digdilem@lemmy.ml 2026-05-27 19:05

Gitea is great for selfhosting. Small footprint, very fast, extremely capable. I also maintain a couple of Gitlab installations at work, but it’s a lot slower and uses more resources. I mean it’s good, but it’s very much a full fat option. Bitbucket is very old and, eww, Atlassian - the exact opposite of a selfhost friendly company.

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@Az_1@piefed.zip 2026-05-28 06:16

Definitely Codeberg if you don’t want to self host anything

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@nek0d3r@midwest.social 2026-05-27 20:15

Yet another Gitea self-hoster here. It mimics GitHub behavior so well that it’s pretty much directly compatible with GitHub Actions and everything. It has a tool built just for mass migrating repositories.

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