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What is the easiest way to have a self hosted git server? (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by ZeDoTelhado@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I've been recently dabbling on rust, and I am have been mostly doing that on my laptop. However, I also have a desktop and once in a while I would like to resume my stuff from the laptop, but without manual file transfers.

I know git by design does this, but I would like to use my current docker setup with Ubuntu server to have a very simple git server.

What would be the simplest git server to have in this situation? Keep in mind I am not planning to expose none of this to the internet

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[–] WIPocket@lemmy.world 121 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

The really simple setup for a single user is just a SSH server with access to storage and the git command. Assuming your laptop and desktop have SSH access to server, you can just:

ssh server git init --bare somerepo
cd somerepo
git remote add server server:somerepo
git push --set-upstream somerepo master #(or main)

and then git clone server:somerepo.

For something slightly higher-tech, I recommend going with Forgejo (the fork of Gitea). It is really easy to set up and low maintainance.

Avoid GitLab for small setups, it is fairly resource hungry.

[–] portnull@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 9 months ago

This is the correct answer

For something more than bare got and lower than forgejo I can recommend soft-serve