Before gitlabs, github, etc. it was common to host your own code repos on-prem. The thing now, though, is that there's a lot of add-on functionality for how teams flow from using github over just hosting a git server.... so it's not really apples v oranges, anymore.
> The thing now, though, is that there's a lot of add-on functionality
I don't get why people use those.
I understand free software projects that don't want to run any infrastructure, but why companies push their building and deployment out of premises when all you need is one trusted computer somewhere. Why do people insist on trusting cloud computers more than the ones they can kick?
Gitlab can handle a lot of CI/CD hosted locally for free that github actually charges for.
Git was originally local only too. People would run their own source code repos, it was trivial to run and maintain for the most part for most basic to intermediate use cases.
I had clients who insisted source code (mine or theirs) couldn't be on a public cloud provider. It's not that unreasonable or uncommon.
