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Git is pretty simple to host yourself. For literally decades I've used git and gitolite to host git for me and a revolving team of developers. But if you want

Git is pretty simple to host yourself. For literally decades I've used git and gitolite to host git for me and a revolving team of developers. But if you want it to be public though where anyone can access/fork it then you have to deal with "spam".

fhdkweig 4mo ago
I'm not familiar with git, but can you post a read-only version publicly so others can still access all the commit history but not be subjected to pull requests?
- JTrehan 4mo ago
  If you have somewhere to host it you can go with https://forgejo.org/ https://forgejo.org/ and have control over everything.
  - ryandrake 4mo ago
    Git doesn’t even need to be “hosted” in the traditional sense. The whole point of it is that it is distributed and you don’t actually need a centralized source of truth.
- 1313ed01 4mo ago
  That's pretty much what git over https does by default (is it even possible to do read-write to a git repo over https instead of ssh?). https://git-scm.com/docs/http-protocol https://git-scm.com/docs/http-protocol
  - not_kurt_godel 4mo ago
    > is it even possible to do read-write to a git repo over https instead of ssh? Yes; it's not only possible but very common: https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/git-basics/about-remote-repositories#cloning-with-https-urls https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/git-basics/about-remo... (IIRC it is in fact actually even sometimes preferable from a security standpoint; or at least that's the tentative conclusion I've reached under a few specific circumstances over the years, although the exact details elude my memory at the moment.)
- 8ig8 4mo ago
  Fossil https://fossil-scm.org https://fossil-scm.org
- danillonunes 4mo ago
  I think cgit is the simplest one that provides a browsable http version of the repository if that's what you want. It's used by the Linux Kernel itself. Example: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/ https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...
ciwolex 4mo ago
How do you deal with bot traffic and traffic from AI that's trying to get training data from your codebase
- ben_w 4mo ago
  Same way you would for any other server. And I mean that 100% literally, given that at the command-line level the remote is simply a URL: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-remote https://git-scm.com/docs/git-remote
- comrade1234 4mo ago
  Only developers that have sent me their public ssh key have access to

fhdkweig 4mo ago

I'm not familiar with git, but can you post a read-only version publicly so others can still access all the commit history but not be subjected to pull requests?

JTrehan 4mo ago
If you have somewhere to host it you can go with https://forgejo.org/ https://forgejo.org/ and have control over everything.
- ryandrake 4mo ago
  Git doesn’t even need to be “hosted” in the traditional sense. The whole point of it is that it is distributed and you don’t actually need a centralized source of truth.
1313ed01 4mo ago
That's pretty much what git over https does by default (is it even possible to do read-write to a git repo over https instead of ssh?). https://git-scm.com/docs/http-protocol https://git-scm.com/docs/http-protocol
- not_kurt_godel 4mo ago
  > is it even possible to do read-write to a git repo over https instead of ssh? Yes; it's not only possible but very common: https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/git-basics/about-remote-repositories#cloning-with-https-urls https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/git-basics/about-remo... (IIRC it is in fact actually even sometimes preferable from a security standpoint; or at least that's the tentative conclusion I've reached under a few specific circumstances over the years, although the exact details elude my memory at the moment.)
8ig8 4mo ago
Fossil https://fossil-scm.org https://fossil-scm.org
danillonunes 4mo ago
I think cgit is the simplest one that provides a browsable http version of the repository if that's what you want. It's used by the Linux Kernel itself. Example: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/ https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...

ciwolex 4mo ago

How do you deal with bot traffic and traffic from AI that's trying to get training data from your codebase

ben_w 4mo ago
Same way you would for any other server. And I mean that 100% literally, given that at the command-line level the remote is simply a URL: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-remote https://git-scm.com/docs/git-remote
comrade1234 4mo ago
Only developers that have sent me their public ssh key have access to