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@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Here is the break down of google code's life:
I personally really enjoyed google code and the simplicity of google code. It was clean, simple, fast, and best of all supported not 1, not 2 but 3 SCM systems (git, mercurial, subversion). During a time when people weren't sure what SCM they were going to use - having the options I think really drew people to it. Mercurial and git hit the scene at the same time and I don't feel like there was a SCM war over which to use - I think both had seperate philosophies of what they wanted to do. I would describe mercirual as a simpler git.
After the annoucnement I wanted to try to self host my own. I had found one product that was git specific - and it looked nice but every time I updated it - it broke. Not what I really wanted to spend my time on. But then I found Indefero. I think that I had actually saw it years ago but at the time I felt it was too complicated to use. And it really is. Setting up Indefero is not for the faint of heart. It's not like any other webapp, like wordpress, where you upload the app, run the installer and you are done. You can use it on shared hosting but you really do need to have root-level access to the system to really use indefero.
After the annoucnement I wanted to try to self host my own. I had found one product that was git specific - and it looked nice but every time I updated it - it broke (not gitea or gogs). Not what I really wanted to spend my time on. But then I found Indefero. I think that I had actually saw it years ago but at the time I felt it was too complicated to use. And it really is. Setting up Indefero is not for the faint of heart. It's not like any other webapp, like wordpress, where you upload the app, run the installer and you are done. You can use it on shared hosting but you really do need to have root-level access to the system to really use indefero.
The year was about 2013 and I wanted to migrate off of google code as it was going to be closing onto my own. So I dug into indefero. By this time though indefero had already started to spin down their service and stopped working on the project. It was sad because it was a project that had great potential and they didn't seem to want to hand the reins over to anyone - just shut it down and have it go into the history books.