Makes me wonder how many repositories exist in general, from all the local Forgejo and Gitlab servers. Heck, include Subversion and Mercurial and git's other friends (and foes!)
Did anyone make a search engine for these yet, so we'd be able to get an estimate by searching for the word "a" or so?
(This always seemed like the big upside of centralised GitHub to me: people can actually find your code. I've been thinking of making a search since MS bought GH but didn't think I could do the marketing aspects and so it would be a waste of effort and I never did it. Recently I was considering whether this would be worth revisiting, with the various projects I'm putting on Codeberg, but maybe someone beat me to the punch)
and then I'd guess one would need to index the per-project GitLab instances: Gnome, GNU (if they ever open theirs back up), whatever's going on with Savannah, probably Sourceforge, maybe sourcehut (assuming he doesn't have some political reason to block you), etc
If I won the lottery, I'd probably bankroll a sourcegraph instance (from back when they were Apache) across everything I could get my hands upon, and donate snapshots of it to the Internet Archive
Did anyone make a search engine for these yet, so we'd be able to get an estimate by searching for the word "a" or so?
(This always seemed like the big upside of centralised GitHub to me: people can actually find your code. I've been thinking of making a search since MS bought GH but didn't think I could do the marketing aspects and so it would be a waste of effort and I never did it. Recently I was considering whether this would be worth revisiting, with the various projects I'm putting on Codeberg, but maybe someone beat me to the punch)