Pushin pitches EU-only Git hosting: no CLOUD Act, no AI training on your code

Pushin (pushin.eu) is a Git hosting service that keeps all repositories inside the EU and pitches itself explicitly against US-based rivals like GitHub. Its core selling point is jurisdictional: because code never leaves the EU, the company argues it sits under GDPR rather than the US CLOUD Act, insulating users from foreign subpoenas and the risk of a vendor abruptly locking them out. It pairs that data-sovereignty angle with a firm no-AI-training pledge — neither Pushin nor its partners use hosted code to train models — and a focus on uptime and developer experience over bolted-on AI features.

The platform also targets ‘slop’: low-effort, reputation-farming contributions that flood popular open-source projects. Pushin says it blocks these to reduce maintainer burnout while still allowing legitimate bots. On the practical side, it leans heavily on GitHub compatibility to lower switching costs. Its pun CLI can import GitHub repos with full history, issues, labels, and pull requests (including comments and original metadata) intact, running locally so your GitHub token never leaves your machine. A GitHub-compatible REST API at /api/v1 means many existing scripts work by just swapping the base URL, and accounts support TOTP or passkey authentication.

The significance is less technical than political: Pushin is part of a growing wave of European infrastructure marketed on digital sovereignty and independence from US cloud providers. The pitch will resonate with EU organizations worried about legal exposure and AI data harvesting, though maturity gaps remain — the API doesn’t cover all of GitHub’s endpoints, and there is no one-click data export yet (only git clone plus the REST API), which is promised but not shipped.