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I'm looking to self-host a GitHub alt on a cheap Linux VPS for personal use. Any rec?

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you just want a remote to push your code to without issues, projects, pull requests and such you can use git only: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-on-the-Server-Setting-Up-the-Server

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is actually a good idea! No need to over engineer stuff 😅

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

@[email protected] if you're okay with that I suggest you check out this https://gitolite.com/gitolite/overview.html.

In short "Gitolite allows you to setup git hosting on a central server, with fine-grained access control and many more powerful features.". It doesn't require some background daemon running, uses the server's SSH and it is a simple script that deals with access control so you can easily manage your users and repositories. The "cherry on top" is that you control your git "server" using a git repository :P

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago