I do self-host a few repositories as well, but I do not set up a separate user: I just create a git/ dir in the home dir of the account I want to host the repos

I do self-host a few repositories as well, but I do not set up a separate user: I just create a git/ dir in the home dir of the account I want to host the repositories on and put the repositories there. To simplify the initial setup, I created a handy shell script, reposetup [1]. It makes to create repositories, push to them and remind me their urls. [1]: https://github.com/agateau/reposetup https://github.com/agateau/reposetup