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wiki:version_control [2026/11/02 09:25] – tmhwiki:version_control [2026/11/02 09:33] (current) – [What is Github or a git forge?] minor edit tmh
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 Github is a hosting platform for **remote repositories**, also called a "forge". It means that it can store your git-tracked project files outside your computer and easily work on them together with others. It also has a nice interface for interacting with the repository, as do other forges. Github is owned by Microsoft. There exist other similar platforms, such as [Codeberg](https://codeberg.org), which is free. Github is a hosting platform for **remote repositories**, also called a "forge". It means that it can store your git-tracked project files outside your computer and easily work on them together with others. It also has a nice interface for interacting with the repository, as do other forges. Github is owned by Microsoft. There exist other similar platforms, such as [Codeberg](https://codeberg.org), which is free.
  
-So far, Eurogreen and Fingreen are hosted on Github. New projects could benefit from using Codeberg, with a better free featureset and European ownership of the platform.+So far, Eurogreen and Fingreen are hosted on Github. New projects could benefit from using Codeberg, with a better free featureset and European ownership of the platform. In any case, it is easy to migrate a project from one host to another.
  
 ## Guidelines for working with git effectively ## Guidelines for working with git effectively