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Are there any git hosting services that allow custom domains?
Since I'll be getting off GitHub and don't want to self host, that's a killer feature I'd pay for.
@sirvertalot to have a single access point for accessing and sharing my code publicly. For example, I've got a dotfiles repo that I started on GitHub and then moved to sourcehut. I need to remember their specific paths to the repo to clone it on a new machine.
If I had git.tychi.me/backpack, I can guarantee for the rest of my life that's where my repo can be cloned from.
@tychi @sirvertalot Now I want this
@tychi hmm, I like the idea but I'm not sure it's trivially possible, because it's not just the hostname, it's also the path after the colon that changes. For instance:
git@git.sr.ht:~stchris/passage
vs
git@github.com:stchris/passage.git
So your idea would be to be able to `git clone git.tychi.me/backpack`? In that case you would probably need a permanently running proxy daemon which speaks the `git://` protocol, I guess.
@tychi ok, now I'm reading up on it (https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-on-the-Server-The-Protocols) and it turns out that the git protocol is only for public, read-only access. So you probably want ssh and I don't see a way to rewrite those URIs. Am I missing something?
@garritfra @tychi what kind of a proxy?
@garritfra @tychi sure, but DNS only gets you so far, unless I'm missing something. You can CNAME git.tychi.me to git.sr.ht, but not to git.sr.ht:~tychi
@garritfra @tychi the problem is this is not http traffic. when you do `git clone` you probably want `ssh`. At least for pushing.
@stchris @garritfra ah, that makes sense. Probably also explains why services don't offer this, not an easy problem to solve 😅
@tychi gitlab pages does, iirc
@tychi How about setting up a reverse proxy that forwards all requests to something like Codeberg? I think for public repositories it can work. Never tried it myself though
@tychi What for? I could understand custom domains for email and websites, but not much else.