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Private Git Repository on Any Computer

65 points by akras14 10y ago

majewsky 10y ago
The point of Github is not so much the repo hosting part (well, that too). The point of Github is - the nice web UI for browsing code - the social features (issues, pull requests, reviews) That's why, after years of Gitolite (i.e. nearly as bare Git hosting as the submission discusses), I've switched to Gogs last year.
- jeandejean 10y ago
  Yeah I love Gogs!!
- nerdponx 10y ago
  How do you feel GitLab stacks up?
  - majewsky 10y ago
    I don't know. I stopped reading at "Rails app".
- tyingq 10y ago
  Probably worth highlighting the gogs/gitea split: https://github.com/gogits/gogs/issues/1304#issuecomment-119106551 https://github.com/gogits/gogs/issues/1304#issuecomment-1191... I would guess given that, gitea would be the better road at the moment.
  - compuguy 10y ago
    I'm not sure, it looks both are still active.
    - tyingq 10y ago
      That's fair enough. There's isn't really a good current state comparison of the two. It was discussed in January, on HN, here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13296717 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13296717
  - smellf 10y ago
    Thanks for bringing that to my attention, I hadn't seen that. Worth reading is the last post in that thread, where Unknwon finally responds.
- compuguy 10y ago
  Agreed, I like having both of your points (plus user management).
- scandox 10y ago
  Gogs is fast. Makes Gitlab seem very slow.
  - AbacusAvenger 10y ago
    I wish I could agree here. I'd love to use Gogs. But it has had a crippling performance issue for big repositories for a while now, and the devs don't seem to prioritize it: https://github.com/gogits/gogs/issues/3022 https://github.com/gogits/gogs/issues/3022
    - scandox 10y ago
      Interesting. Hadn't seen a "don't send pull requests" label before...so I guess they feel that issue has some wide-ranging implications? Which is odd because I can't think why it would...
divbit 10y ago
I have essentially the same tutorial on my readme here: https://github.com/divbit/grimoire https://github.com/divbit/grimoire except I've included a step where Ubuntu uncomplicated firewall is setup. I wonder if anyone has any suggestions on other basic security measures that should be taken for a private git repo?
- divbit 10y ago
  I should add Linode to that.. didn't realize they have a $5 instance, having never used them.
tomc1985 10y ago
It pains me to think that people nowadays need to be reminded that many cloud services were/are originally available locally, for unlimited use. Amazon's whole services model seems to revolve around converting on-prem services into cloud offerings, even. Modern computing is just like the chemicals industry now. You can clean your whole house with just a few simple ingredients (only one is a product -- water, citrus, baking soda, vinegar, mud, and bleach), but how many of us actually know that? Instead we go to the store and pick up Windex, Drain-o, and everything else, because we paid more attention to advertisements and marketing droids than the world around us. The damage that modern technology has done to human resourcefulness makes me weep
- vanattab 10y ago
  Ok you peaked my interest. How do I clean with mud? Are you simply using a "Sandy mud" as an abrasive?
  - Lxr 10y ago
    Sorry to be that guy, but I thought you might want to know: it's "piqued" my interest.
  - yosamino 10y ago
    You could wash your hair with clay : http://www.mommypotamus.com/how-to-wash-your-hair-with-clay/ http://www.mommypotamus.com/how-to-wash-your-hair-with-clay/
  - tomc1985 10y ago
    Yeah, it's an excellent abrasive for cleaning stainless steel. Sometimes works as a pumice-type scrub too. (Make sure your dirt is clean :)
- dotancohen 10y ago
  I really want to believe you. Can you give some examples of cleaning products' replacements, or link to some more information?
rkcf 10y ago
I built a docker container that can serve as a quick plug and play ssh over git repository: https://github.com/rkcf/docker-git-server https://github.com/rkcf/docker-git-server
Zikes 10y ago
I recently did something like this as well, and one thing I particularly missed was the convenience of quickly creating the remote repository, so I made this bash script: https://gist.github.com/zikes/926fd8bb72f9856776e309fba45f07cc https://gist.github.com/zikes/926fd8bb72f9856776e309fba45f07... An interesting thing about git, if there's an executable somewhere in your $PATH and it starts with git-, then it becomes a "git command". So in my case, I named it git-make-remote.sh, and I can execute it via "git make-remote myreponame" and it will SSH to my private git server and create the associated remote repo.
JustSomeNobody 10y ago
Wait, so people use git and they don't know this? How?
- jonathonf 10y ago
  Made me wonder too. Add in a post-commit hook on a server-side repo and you have a decent code deployment system.
- pavel_lishin 10y ago
  People drive without understanding engines. People cook without understanding the maillard reaction.
  - ryandrake 10y ago
    This isn't like driving without understanding engines. This is about paying a chauffeur to drive you everywhere without realizing that you could always just drive yourself there. EDIT: Or better, having your buddy drive you in your car everywhere without realizing you could drive yourself.
  - JustSomeNobody 10y ago
    No, this is like saying people cook with only a fry pan.[0] [0] No disrespect to those who only have a fry pan to cook with.
- deathanatos 10y ago
  > Wait, so people use git and they don't know this? Oh God yes. > How? The same reason nobody seems to bother to read the RFC describing the standard they end up implementing badly, I presume.
asidiali 10y ago
I built a free lightweight service that automates this, and provides a nice CLI tool for interacting with it. Right now it deploys to free hosting on the gitup servers. Repo auth is handled via git-ssh verification with offloaded key storage and individual user roles/permissions. https://gitup.io https://gitup.io https://npmjs.com/package/gitup-cli https://npmjs.com/package/gitup-cli Some commands include: - `gitup login <username>` : authenticates/registers user - `gitup new <repo-name>` : creates a new repo at gitup.io/username/repo-name - `gitup add-user <repo-name> <username>` : share a repo with another gitup user Repos are private by default. Right now this is a very basic free service but hope to expand the offering quickly including self hosting the repo storage, the key store, web interface, etc. Would love to know if you check it out and come across a bug or have any feedback for me! Thank you.
- divbit 10y ago
  Minor Feedback: I think part of the point of private hosting is privacy / security. Maybe some info on the landing page or documentation about what kind of security is provided would help people decide whether to use it. Also your npm package could use an actual module rather than just cli tool
  - asidiali 10y ago
    Appreciate it! So far I've been only able to put minimal time into this, definitely trying to ramp up. I agree I need way, way more information about what the service is, why it's any good, etc. Roger on the module, plans there as well - hope you'll check it out again soon. Thanks again for your advice, much appreciated.
- zapt02 10y ago
  I don't really understand the service - is it standard Git hosting? (Just like GitHub / GitLab?) In that case, I think you're kind of missing the point of the linked post, which was about running Git locally as opposed to in someones cloud.
  - asidiali 10y ago
ryd994 10y ago
I've git all my local scripts and snippets for years. Good to rollback sometimes. I have a 2010 laptop running behind TV. Any SSH host can be git server. And it hosts my owncloud. In purpose of rolling back binary documents, it works much faster and frequently.
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ttd 10y ago
For a lot of my non-critical work that I want to share between computers (e.g. desktop and laptop), I commit to various git repositories in my Dropbox. It's very convenient, and allows me to share my git repos as seamlessly as documents.
- hellcow 10y ago
  Careful with that. I used to do something similar, then one day all my git repos were suddenly corrupted due to duplicate and renamed files in the .git directory. I pinged Dropbox support to notify them of a bug in their OSX client, and their response was "Don't store git repos in Dropbox." YMMV
  - Jare 10y ago
    I had that happen with AeroFS instead of Dropbox, simply by using a repo on one machine that was not synced to the contents of the other machine. This can happen either if a machine doesn't finish sync to dropbox after using a repo in it, or the repo is used before the machine has finished syncing from dropbox. A simple "git commit" and close the laptop in a hurry as soon as the command finishes would likely do it.
  - ttd 10y ago
    Thanks for the warning -- I did not know that!
viraptor 10y ago
Even if you need issues, you can still use apps like gitissius that will store the data in your repo https://github.com/glogiotatidis/gitissius/blob/master/README.org https://github.com/glogiotatidis/gitissius/blob/master/READM... For PRs there's https://github.com/google/git-appraise/blob/master/README.md https://github.com/google/git-appraise/blob/master/README.md
jsilence 10y ago
Those who are missing issue tracking with this approach might want to consider using Fossil (https://www.fossil-scm.org/ https://www.fossil-scm.org/) which includes a wiki and issue tracking in one simple DSCM system.
- isxek 10y ago
  Until you start hankering for "rebase" or any other history-altering commands. However, if you don't generally use them, Fossil should be able to suit your VCS needs well enough.

65 points by akras14 10y ago

The point of Github is not so much the repo hosting part (well, that too). The point of Github is - the nice web UI for browsing code - the social features (issues, pull requests, reviews) That's why, after years of Gitolite (i.e. nearly as bare Git hosting as the submission discusses), I've switched to Gogs last year.

jeandejean 10y ago
Yeah I love Gogs!!
nerdponx 10y ago
How do you feel GitLab stacks up?
- majewsky 10y ago
  I don't know. I stopped reading at "Rails app".
tyingq 10y ago
Probably worth highlighting the gogs/gitea split: https://github.com/gogits/gogs/issues/1304#issuecomment-119106551 https://github.com/gogits/gogs/issues/1304#issuecomment-1191... I would guess given that, gitea would be the better road at the moment.
- compuguy 10y ago
  I'm not sure, it looks both are still active.
  - tyingq 10y ago
    That's fair enough. There's isn't really a good current state comparison of the two. It was discussed in January, on HN, here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13296717 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13296717
- smellf 10y ago
  Thanks for bringing that to my attention, I hadn't seen that. Worth reading is the last post in that thread, where Unknwon finally responds.
compuguy 10y ago
Agreed, I like having both of your points (plus user management).
scandox 10y ago
Gogs is fast. Makes Gitlab seem very slow.
- AbacusAvenger 10y ago
  I wish I could agree here. I'd love to use Gogs. But it has had a crippling performance issue for big repositories for a while now, and the devs don't seem to prioritize it: https://github.com/gogits/gogs/issues/3022 https://github.com/gogits/gogs/issues/3022
  - scandox 10y ago
    Interesting. Hadn't seen a "don't send pull requests" label before...so I guess they feel that issue has some wide-ranging implications? Which is odd because I can't think why it would...

divbit 10y ago

I have essentially the same tutorial on my readme here: https://github.com/divbit/grimoire https://github.com/divbit/grimoire except I've included a step where Ubuntu uncomplicated firewall is setup. I wonder if anyone has any suggestions on other basic security measures that should be taken for a private git repo?

divbit 10y ago
I should add Linode to that.. didn't realize they have a $5 instance, having never used them.

tomc1985 10y ago

It pains me to think that people nowadays need to be reminded that many cloud services were/are originally available locally, for unlimited use. Amazon's whole services model seems to revolve around converting on-prem services into cloud offerings, even. Modern computing is just like the chemicals industry now. You can clean your whole house with just a few simple ingredients (only one is a product -- water, citrus, baking soda, vinegar, mud, and bleach), but how many of us actually know that? Instead we go to the store and pick up Windex, Drain-o, and everything else, because we paid more attention to advertisements and marketing droids than the world around us. The damage that modern technology has done to human resourcefulness makes me weep

vanattab 10y ago
Ok you peaked my interest. How do I clean with mud? Are you simply using a "Sandy mud" as an abrasive?
- Lxr 10y ago
  Sorry to be that guy, but I thought you might want to know: it's "piqued" my interest.
- yosamino 10y ago
  You could wash your hair with clay : http://www.mommypotamus.com/how-to-wash-your-hair-with-clay/ http://www.mommypotamus.com/how-to-wash-your-hair-with-clay/
- tomc1985 10y ago
  Yeah, it's an excellent abrasive for cleaning stainless steel. Sometimes works as a pumice-type scrub too. (Make sure your dirt is clean :)
dotancohen 10y ago
I really want to believe you. Can you give some examples of cleaning products' replacements, or link to some more information?

rkcf 10y ago

I built a docker container that can serve as a quick plug and play ssh over git repository: https://github.com/rkcf/docker-git-server https://github.com/rkcf/docker-git-server

Zikes 10y ago

I recently did something like this as well, and one thing I particularly missed was the convenience of quickly creating the remote repository, so I made this bash script: https://gist.github.com/zikes/926fd8bb72f9856776e309fba45f07cc https://gist.github.com/zikes/926fd8bb72f9856776e309fba45f07... An interesting thing about git, if there's an executable somewhere in your $PATH and it starts with git-, then it becomes a "git command". So in my case, I named it git-make-remote.sh, and I can execute it via "git make-remote myreponame" and it will SSH to my private git server and create the associated remote repo.

JustSomeNobody 10y ago

Wait, so people use git and they don't know this? How?

jonathonf 10y ago
Made me wonder too. Add in a post-commit hook on a server-side repo and you have a decent code deployment system.
pavel_lishin 10y ago
People drive without understanding engines. People cook without understanding the maillard reaction.
- ryandrake 10y ago
  This isn't like driving without understanding engines. This is about paying a chauffeur to drive you everywhere without realizing that you could always just drive yourself there. EDIT: Or better, having your buddy drive you in your car everywhere without realizing you could drive yourself.
- JustSomeNobody 10y ago
  No, this is like saying people cook with only a fry pan.[0] [0] No disrespect to those who only have a fry pan to cook with.
deathanatos 10y ago
> Wait, so people use git and they don't know this? Oh God yes. > How? The same reason nobody seems to bother to read the RFC describing the standard they end up implementing badly, I presume.

asidiali 10y ago

I built a free lightweight service that automates this, and provides a nice CLI tool for interacting with it. Right now it deploys to free hosting on the gitup servers. Repo auth is handled via git-ssh verification with offloaded key storage and individual user roles/permissions. https://gitup.io https://gitup.io https://npmjs.com/package/gitup-cli https://npmjs.com/package/gitup-cli Some commands include: - `gitup login <username>` : authenticates/registers user - `gitup new <repo-name>` : creates a new repo at gitup.io/username/repo-name - `gitup add-user <repo-name> <username>` : share a repo with another gitup user Repos are private by default. Right now this is a very basic free service but hope to expand the offering quickly including self hosting the repo storage, the key store, web interface, etc. Would love to know if you check it out and come across a bug or have any feedback for me! Thank you.

divbit 10y ago
Minor Feedback: I think part of the point of private hosting is privacy / security. Maybe some info on the landing page or documentation about what kind of security is provided would help people decide whether to use it. Also your npm package could use an actual module rather than just cli tool
- asidiali 10y ago
  Appreciate it! So far I've been only able to put minimal time into this, definitely trying to ramp up. I agree I need way, way more information about what the service is, why it's any good, etc. Roger on the module, plans there as well - hope you'll check it out again soon. Thanks again for your advice, much appreciated.
zapt02 10y ago
I don't really understand the service - is it standard Git hosting? (Just like GitHub / GitLab?) In that case, I think you're kind of missing the point of the linked post, which was about running Git locally as opposed to in someones cloud.
- asidiali 10y ago

ryd994 10y ago

I've git all my local scripts and snippets for years. Good to rollback sometimes. I have a 2010 laptop running behind TV. Any SSH host can be git server. And it hosts my owncloud. In purpose of rolling back binary documents, it works much faster and frequently.

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ttd 10y ago

For a lot of my non-critical work that I want to share between computers (e.g. desktop and laptop), I commit to various git repositories in my Dropbox. It's very convenient, and allows me to share my git repos as seamlessly as documents.

hellcow 10y ago
Careful with that. I used to do something similar, then one day all my git repos were suddenly corrupted due to duplicate and renamed files in the .git directory. I pinged Dropbox support to notify them of a bug in their OSX client, and their response was "Don't store git repos in Dropbox." YMMV
- Jare 10y ago
  I had that happen with AeroFS instead of Dropbox, simply by using a repo on one machine that was not synced to the contents of the other machine. This can happen either if a machine doesn't finish sync to dropbox after using a repo in it, or the repo is used before the machine has finished syncing from dropbox. A simple "git commit" and close the laptop in a hurry as soon as the command finishes would likely do it.
- ttd 10y ago
  Thanks for the warning -- I did not know that!

viraptor 10y ago

Even if you need issues, you can still use apps like gitissius that will store the data in your repo https://github.com/glogiotatidis/gitissius/blob/master/README.org https://github.com/glogiotatidis/gitissius/blob/master/READM... For PRs there's https://github.com/google/git-appraise/blob/master/README.md https://github.com/google/git-appraise/blob/master/README.md

jsilence 10y ago

Those who are missing issue tracking with this approach might want to consider using Fossil (https://www.fossil-scm.org/ https://www.fossil-scm.org/) which includes a wiki and issue tracking in one simple DSCM system.

isxek 10y ago
Until you start hankering for "rebase" or any other history-altering commands. However, if you don't generally use them, Fossil should be able to suit your VCS needs well enough.