I just joined a new team (very small: four developers in total, with two of those leaving soon). The two original developers set up the git repo on a folder in a Windows network share.

Am I taking crazy pills, or is that a bad idea? Our organization does have github/gitlab/bitbucket available, so is there any good reason not to use those hosted solutions?

  • @TitanLaGrangeEnglish
    2•1 year ago

    I’d say that while it should be fine, if you have a hosted solution available it’s a little crazy to not use it.

    I use a GitLab instance at home for my personal and contract projects, with no other users. It’s great as an interface for reviewing previous changes, browsing code in other branches, and as a final check before I merge code to my main branch (I follow the same pull request workflow I’d use at work; open a PR from my feature branch, review the code from the GitLab UI, then merge).