Git is a distributed version control system. Every repo can be the master repo. 'Master' is purely a function of convention. It is worth stressing that you need no software to 'host' git. Every git repository is 'self hosting', by design.
Tools like this primarily provide a web client to a repository not intended as a working copy, with some optional non-git code collaboration tools, such as issues, and an inbox of pull requests (i.e. suggested patches). These are not unique tools, there are many options for issue tracking and email.
I make this point because these solutions are trying to replicate smaller or larger chunks of github rather than provide alternative ways to use git.
That said, Gita/Gogs is pretty. And might hold the hand of people only used to github. It is great that it is self-contained as a binary, so can be used with minimal configuration, like other front-ends.
But I worry that the emphasis on tools like this suggest we have accepted that github-flavoured centralised version control ('gitversion', maybe, or 'gcs'), rather than git, is now the de facto standard for version control. Am I paranoid? Does it even matter?
Tools like this primarily provide a web client to a repository not intended as a working copy, with some optional non-git code collaboration tools, such as issues, and an inbox of pull requests (i.e. suggested patches). These are not unique tools, there are many options for issue tracking and email.
I make this point because these solutions are trying to replicate smaller or larger chunks of github rather than provide alternative ways to use git.
That said, Gita/Gogs is pretty. And might hold the hand of people only used to github. It is great that it is self-contained as a binary, so can be used with minimal configuration, like other front-ends.
But I worry that the emphasis on tools like this suggest we have accepted that github-flavoured centralised version control ('gitversion', maybe, or 'gcs'), rather than git, is now the de facto standard for version control. Am I paranoid? Does it even matter?