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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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[–] WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Check out Gitea. It was pretty easy to set up with docker and they have pretty decent docs.

[–] artiman@piefed.social 18 points 3 days ago (3 children)

gitea has been replaced by forgejo

[–] cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 days ago

You are correct, and I am still a bit sad about it, because gitea was a cuter name and logo TBH. But Forgejo is pursuing a technically superior design and socially better path at this point.

[–] TehNomad@piefed.social 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I think Forgejo is a community-driven fork of Gitea. Gitea development is still active.

[–] artiman@piefed.social 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

forgejo is implementing federation and gitea is not https://forgejo.org/compare-to-gitea/ if you dont care that its community based, federation is the only thing i could tell you

[–] moseschrute@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I love federation, but why does a git server need federation? Am I missing something, or is this federating for the sake of federating?

[–] artiman@piefed.social 1 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

You can make like a account on Codeberg and open issues on other git servers it's not useful for developers it's user friendly why is UX bad in your opinion?

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip -1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Look at the number of commits

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 days ago

Not necessarily

Notice Forgejo is being hosted on Forgejo. The community behind it is much stronger while Gitea is some startup that is desperately trying to be relevant.

[–] Zeoic@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Why is that? The project still seems to be available / updating

[–] artiman@piefed.social 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

it's been forked Into forgejo a community driven fork if you don't care that they are community based, they are also implementing federation