To use with Git
It’s basic SSH-based git, but also allows you to manage permissions for users and groups based on their SSH keys. You do all configuration by editing a file in the adminstration repo and pushing those changes to the server. I don’t want a web interface or any heavy service running all the time so this suits me perfectly.
I have used Gogs and Gitea in the past, now Forgejo is a fork of Gitea with Woodpecker-CI
Can automate anything you want, a website or wiki use it to roll out any new changes automatically and others use it to test their software. Connects to Gitea/Forgejo as a third party application and requires that it be granted the appropriate permissions in the Settings -> Applications column.
I used many of them and settled for bare repos on an host with ssh access
- gitea / gogs: too many database corruptions I am getting ptsd just talking about it
- gitlab: too big, too resource hungry for something so simple. Didn’t use 90% of the stuff that offered
- gitbucket and onedev: those are very good and are sort of setup and forget because they just work. They have different features set so check them out.
In the end given that I just have a bunch of users and don’t need many fancy features (we share patches over email and matrix) on our community server we are just using ssh and klaus as a web frontend
I’ve had gitlab/gitlab-ce running on my NAS for 6+ months and it’s been reliable, mostly as a central repository and off-device backup. It has CI/CD and other capabilities (gitlab/gitlab-runner, etc), but I’ve not implemented them.
