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I tried out self hosting on my $5/mo VPS and found it much easier than expected. https://jeskin.net/blog/self-hosting-git-with-stagit/ https://jeskin.net/blog/s

by jpe90 4y ago

I tried out self hosting on my $5/mo VPS and found it much easier than expected. https://jeskin.net/blog/self-hosting-git-with-stagit/ https://jeskin.net/blog/self-hosting-git-with-stagit/

jcul 4y ago
Stagit looks really nice and lightweight. I like the idea of generating static webpages, it sounds great for read only content. However, it doesn't sound very good for collaboration. Someone can come your repo but it doesn't seem easy for them to submit changes back upstream to your repo?
- jpe90 4y ago
  The best way to collaborate would be just sending patches, either with git send-email or as an attachment to a regular message. Then the author applies them and the repo/stagit will display the change. https://git-send-email.io/ https://git-send-email.io/
giobox 4y ago
Can't you just run gitlab or whatever else out of a container in 5 seconds nowadays? Map a single volume and you are likely done. Its not that it's hard to self host that I choose to use third party git services (its clearly not!), it's just that the benefits of self hosting a git repository are increasingly few unless you have strict security requirements etc etc, and the free options are so good now. Running self hosted git is trivial in 2022 if you really need to, with many one-line container deployment options to choose from. > https://registry.hub.docker.com/r/gitlab/gitlab-ce/ https://registry.hub.docker.com/r/gitlab/gitlab-ce/ While it might be fun to self-host, a 5 dollar a month fee to run it is also not price competitive with the free or paid individual tiers at github.com for a single user too. I'd probably only do this if the git repo was being hosted on my home LAN. > https://github.com/pricing https://github.com/pricing
- jpe90 4y ago
  Yeah I'm sure you could. I use that VPS for my blog and personal projects also so I wanted to keep resource utilization to a minimum and not administer a webapp.
- emilengler 4y ago
  But why? If you have an SSH server running, you can immediately setup a git server. Just do git init —-bare, no gigantic web server overhead. https://rgz.ee/git.html https://rgz.ee/git.html
  - bee_rider 4y ago
    It is easy to give people read-only git access no SSH, if you want to share your code with the internet at large?
    - jpe90 4y ago
      If you add a git-daemon-export-ok file to the repo, it's accessible read-only over the git protocol. That's how all my repos on https://git.jeskin.net https://git.jeskin.net are setup. https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-on-the-Server-The-Protocols https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-on-the-Server-The-Protoco...
    - bee_rider 4y ago
      note: Transposing "it" and "is" has made my question look sort of passive-aggressive or sarcastic, this was accidental.
      - jpe90 4y ago
        The intent was clear from the context, no worries!
  - throwaway894345 4y ago
    Presumably people value the UI (also, what is the "gigantic web server overhead" you're referring to?).

by jpe90 4y ago

I tried out self hosting on my $5/mo VPS and found it much easier than expected. https://jeskin.net/blog/self-hosting-git-with-stagit/ https://jeskin.net/blog/self-hosting-git-with-stagit/

jcul 4y ago

Stagit looks really nice and lightweight. I like the idea of generating static webpages, it sounds great for read only content. However, it doesn't sound very good for collaboration. Someone can come your repo but it doesn't seem easy for them to submit changes back upstream to your repo?

jpe90 4y ago
The best way to collaborate would be just sending patches, either with git send-email or as an attachment to a regular message. Then the author applies them and the repo/stagit will display the change. https://git-send-email.io/ https://git-send-email.io/

giobox 4y ago

Can't you just run gitlab or whatever else out of a container in 5 seconds nowadays? Map a single volume and you are likely done. Its not that it's hard to self host that I choose to use third party git services (its clearly not!), it's just that the benefits of self hosting a git repository are increasingly few unless you have strict security requirements etc etc, and the free options are so good now. Running self hosted git is trivial in 2022 if you really need to, with many one-line container deployment options to choose from. > https://registry.hub.docker.com/r/gitlab/gitlab-ce/ https://registry.hub.docker.com/r/gitlab/gitlab-ce/ While it might be fun to self-host, a 5 dollar a month fee to run it is also not price competitive with the free or paid individual tiers at github.com for a single user too. I'd probably only do this if the git repo was being hosted on my home LAN. > https://github.com/pricing https://github.com/pricing

jpe90 4y ago
Yeah I'm sure you could. I use that VPS for my blog and personal projects also so I wanted to keep resource utilization to a minimum and not administer a webapp.
emilengler 4y ago
But why? If you have an SSH server running, you can immediately setup a git server. Just do git init —-bare, no gigantic web server overhead. https://rgz.ee/git.html https://rgz.ee/git.html
- bee_rider 4y ago
  It is easy to give people read-only git access no SSH, if you want to share your code with the internet at large?
  - jpe90 4y ago
    If you add a git-daemon-export-ok file to the repo, it's accessible read-only over the git protocol. That's how all my repos on https://git.jeskin.net https://git.jeskin.net are setup. https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-on-the-Server-The-Protocols https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-on-the-Server-The-Protoco...
  - bee_rider 4y ago
    note: Transposing "it" and "is" has made my question look sort of passive-aggressive or sarcastic, this was accidental.
    - jpe90 4y ago
      The intent was clear from the context, no worries!
- throwaway894345 4y ago
  Presumably people value the UI (also, what is the "gigantic web server overhead" you're referring to?).