Self-hosted GitHub alternative?

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• Anafroj@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Obligatory check : are you sure you really need a forge? (that’s the name we use to designate tools like Github/Gitlab/Gitea/etc). You can do a lot with git alone : you can host repositories on your server, clone them through ssh (or even http with git http-backend, although it requires a bit of setup), push, pull, create branches, create notes, etc. And the best of it : you can even have CI/CD scripts as post-receive hooks that will run your tests, deploy your app, or reject the changes if something is not right.

  The only thing you have to do is to create the repos on your server with the –bare flag, as in git init --bare, this will create a repos that is basically only what you usually have in the .git directory, and will avoid having errors because you pushed to a branch that is not the currently one checked. It will also keep the repos clean, without artifacts (provided you run your build tasks elsewhere, obviously), so it will make all your sources really easy to backup.

  And to discuss issues and changes, there is always email. :) There is also this, a code review tool that just pop up on HN.

  And it works with Github! :) Just add a git remote to Github, and you can push to it or fetch from it. You can even setup hooks to sync with it. I publish my FOSS projects both on Github and Gitlab, and the only thing I do to propagate changes is to push to my local bare repos that I use for easy backups, they reach have a post-update hook which propagates the change everywhere it needs to be (on Github, Gitlab, various machines in my local network, which then have their own post-update hooks to deploy the app/lib). The final touch to that : having this ~/git/ directory that contains all my bare repos (which are only a few hundred MB so fit perfectly in my backups) allowed me to create a git_grep_all script to do code search in all my repos at once (who needs elasticsearch anyway :D ) :

  #!/usr/bin/env bash
  # grep recursively bare repos
  
  INITIAL_DIR=$(pwd)
  for dir in $(find . -name HEAD -exec dirname '{}' \;); do
    pushd $dir > /dev/null
    git grep "$*" HEAD > /dev/null
    if [[ "$?" = "0" ]]; then
      pwd
      git grep "$*" HEAD
      echo
    fi
  
    popd > /dev/null
  done
  

  (note that it uses pushd and popd, which are bash builtins, other shells should use other ways to change directories)

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  • otl@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    And sharing changes can be done with just email and regular git! git-send-email.io

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• ratz@chatsubo.hiteklolife.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What? Gitea. Gitlab is a complete devops platform. Awesome, but complete overkill.

  Why? Because I regularly commit code atrocities and have a hard enough time dealing with imposter syndrome, I don’t need to add public shaming on top of it (And just data sovereignty I guess)

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  • ErwinLottemann@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Gitlab can be registration only, so noone else can see your code crimes (when self-hosted)

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    • misterzero@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      If people could see my code crimes, I would be in code jail for life.

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• cancanman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m using GItea and it’s been working great. Very easy to set up in docker.

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• Vilian@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  gitlab can be selfhosted

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  • herrvogel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    And is hilariously overkill for what OP seems to want. It’s a pretty large and heavy package that comes with a whole lot of features.

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    • andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      My experience was that they were definitely overkill until they weren’t, and I was glad to be comfortable in the UI when I wanted to start playing with more advanced features. Something like the sameersbn/gitlab docker image can get you started and grow with you a ton.

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• OddFed@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  forgejo.org

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• dandroid@dandroid.app ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What are you folks using to host your super secret local code and why?

  This obviously doesn’t help for the rest of your question, but for anything that I don’t want to open source for whatever reason, I just make a bare repo and push it to a folder on my server that has all my bare repos. Literally just git server on my LAN. Nothing fancy. No UI or anything, but I don’t use a UI for git anyway.

  If you don’t have a server at home, you could do the same thing but to a folder on your local machine. That obviously means you will have no backup. But you will still have version control in case you want to revert something you did or refer back to an old version.

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• newIdentity@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  GitLab or GitTea

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• 520@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Gitlab can do what you need

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  • krnl386@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s a pretty hefty solution. Gitlab is a monster nowadays…

    GOGS, Gitea/Forgejo can do 90% of what Gitlab does and are much lighter.

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• russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I currently use GitLab, but if I were doing things from the start I’d go with Gitea or Forgejo since its lighter. Though I do quite like GitLab CI (which is why I didn’t go with the other initially) but these days I hear Gitea has Actions support built in.

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  • domi@lemmy.secnd.me ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m in the same boat. GitLab CI is so nice that I still host it, even if everything else is overkill.

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  • ErwinLottemann@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Gitlab also has issues, error tracking via sentry and much more. If you want only something nice to host your code go with Gitea, if you also want to manage your project or do auto releases, use gitlab.

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• nimmo@lem.nimmog.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I personally use gitea but there is also a community version of gitlab that has way more power than I need.

  Gitea can import a repo from GitHub but I don’t know whether it can also push updates out as one never tried to do that.

  I picked gitea as I didn’t need all of the extra power of gitlab and they were the first two options I found. I don’t deploy it using portainer but all of my stacks are set up as git repos in portainer and using the webhook feature it’ll auto pull and redeploy whenever I push to it

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• mariom@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Forgejo. Gitlab will be overkill probably.

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• unscholarly_source@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Gogs and Gitea are git alternatives that offers GitLab features with less system resource demands.

  Though, it would be good to understand your use case, whereby a GitHub private repository would not be suitable…

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  • schmurian@lsmu.schmurian.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It now also comes with Gitea Actions and the Act Runner - in case this feature is relevant to you.

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    • damnthefilibuster@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Wow, no one till now mentioned Gitea has a runner and actions. Thanks!

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• philuk@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  about.gitea.com is a great lightweight alternative that’s heavily inspired by GitHub.

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  • melchiorbv@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I self-host Gitea and is pretty lightweight and low maintenance. Great solution!

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• mholiv@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  +1 For Gitea. Works really well for me. It recently added GitHub style actors so you can use GitHub style CI/CD too!

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• blackbarn@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m using Gitea. Pretty simple and a decent feature set.

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• liliumstar@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Another +1 for gitea. It works quite well and is easy to setup.

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• Aux@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Why do you want that? Plain git can do everything you actually need.

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• mhzawadi@lemmy.horwood.cloud ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Without knowing why you need a local GitHub like tool is almost impossible to suggest, but I know Gogo’s can keep a remote in sync if you need. Also there is a python tool to backup your GitHub account and or organisation

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• skimm@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Since I haven’t seen it mentioned yet, I’ve been using Soft Serve on my server. Just a git server with terminal UI and easy to manage.

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• nbafantest@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’d probably just run gitlab and use the gitlab images, as that’s one of the solutions git recommends

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