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What is the easiest way to have a self hosted git server? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I've been recently dabbling on rust, and I am have been mostly doing that on my laptop. However, I also have a desktop and once in a while I would like to resume my stuff from the laptop, but without manual file transfers.

I know git by design does this, but I would like to use my current docker setup with Ubuntu server to have a very simple git server.

What would be the simplest git server to have in this situation? Keep in mind I am not planning to expose none of this to the internet

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[–] -4 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

Using git is oftentimes a good idea but does not fit your description. Just use syncthing or another cloud thing. You can still use git but without a dedicated berg/tea/hub/lab/bucket server

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Horrible idea. You'll likely end up syncing a mess of unnecessary, incompatible and conflicting binary build files onto different platforms, you'll end up with internal file conflicts that are impossible to properly resolve and will destroy your repo, especially if you're still using git on top of it. Don't do this. Git has its own synchronization mechanisms for a reason, they are extremely mature and specifically designed for maximum efficiency, safety and correctness for the task at hand, which is managing source code. Millions of people use git for source code every day. It is a solved problem.

    Syncthing is literally the WRONG tool for this job. It is a great tool for many situations, but you are using it as a hammer when what you need is a saw.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    To be fair, if you want to sync your work across two machines, Git is not ideal because well, you must always remember to push, If you don't push before switching to the other machine, you're out of luck.

    Syncthing has no such problem, because it's real time.

    However, it's true that you cannot combine Syncthing and Git. There are solutions like https://github.com/tkellogg/dura, but I have not tested it.

    There's some lack of options in this space. For some, it might be nicer to run an online IDE.

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    To add something, I second the "just use Git over ssh without installing any additional server". An additional variation is using something like Gitolite to add multi-user support to raw Git, if you need to support multiple users and permissions; it's still lighter than running Forgejo.

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