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RiverCrochet10/01/20240 repliesview on HN

My niece tells me that decentralized Git is, well Git.

As far as a web interface to Git, she was saying the basic pieces are kinda already there with Gitea, and provided the following points:

- Gitea is a single executable, fairly easy to install at least on Linux (it does need a database), and while the configuration requires some time it's worth it for all that Gitea does - which is basically be a copy of Github.

- Gitea has a migration option which will literally pull in an entire Git repo with one click.

So my niece was telling me zany things like "why doesn't everyone run their own Gitea and simply cross migrate everything?" I don't know, I feel like it's dangerous and essentially providing easy tools and paraphernalia to potential evil doers, such as those who may want to infringe copyright, so this is an application I'll never host or run in my life.