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It may have been a while since my last shout-out to #gitolite https://gitolite.com/gitolite/index.html (they here??)

Doing some stuff for some open-source repo .. but need to copy "work-in-progress" back and forth between laptop + desktop .. doing so via "push to github" would burn lots of CI credits ...

So instead, I do two steps to set up another remote on my gitolite3 instance:
- add the new repo to the config
- push the config

After this, "git clone [email protected]" works and I can share!

#TIL that #Gitolite can't handle repositories with different default branch names. As in, if you push a "main" branch into a "master" server, you get no HEAD 🤦. And you can only change that via SSH-ing to the server and modifying the underlying repository.

Apparently, you could also install a hook to automatically fix HEAD for you: https://groups.google.com/g/gitolite/c/NwZ1-hq9-9E

#Gentoo #git

Often times, simplicity is where it is at.

- Don't need a full platform like #forgejo or #gitea (no need for a web interface although both are great projects)

- Don't need need #gitolite to manage users and repos (also great lightweight solution)

- Don't need a new git user on my server as i am the only user

Turns out i had it all along, my main and only user can just instantiate a repo on a empty dir with `git init --bare` and off we go to the races

#git #selfhosting #selfhost #selfhosted

Gitolite is now updated to version 3.6.14 in Guix:

https://codeberg.org/guix/guix/commit/690680eec7b1ffdefa493069f87a1e3ed37271d1

This version makes it possible to use any default branch name for the gitolite-admin repo, not just master. This also means that setting the default-branch field of the gitolite-git-configuration record (to anything other than #f or master) will now result in a working gitolite installation.

#guix #gitolite

@JosetAEtzel Good luck! Yeah, I’ve tried to avoid closed-source proprietary software and formats whenever possible since - well, free and open source software were a thing. Most of my important stuff is in LaTeX and Markdown. Data is in CSV or, if it needs more structure, SQLite. I’ve recently discovered #Marimo Python notebooks, so I do use those a bit now. Most of the stuff is versioned with #git using self-hosted #gitolite.

@cliffwade #gitolite FTW! If it’s good enough for the kernel folks, it's good enough for me.

@gedankenstuecke GitHub classroom never worked for me in the first place, so I’m happily showing my students how to self-host with #gitolite.

@jhx as usual when reading about such setup I can't recommend #yadm enough: https://yadm.io In similar vein I also setup #gitolite (https://gitolite.com), which I like, but which is probably an overkill in this case. Thanks for sharing, I always love reading about somebody else's setups! 🙌🏻

#git

Wanna throw #gitea off my VPS, because it's a program that's constantly running in the background, and I'm far too lazy to manually update it every so ofter.

#gitolite seems more lean, and I can add #cgit as a frontend?

But even that is overkill, technically, since I'm single-user, no one else besides me pushes to the repo, so a bare git repo which I push to via ssh would totally suffice...

Thank you for the suggestions! In the end, I actually ended up going with #cgit and #gitolite as I felt #gitea and the like are too complex for my use case. I pretty much just need SSH-key based authentication, HTTPS cloning and a nice little frontend, which this combo satisfies.

On the note of #podman, I have not been able to get #forgejo (gitea fork) working, something about permissions, probably an issue with rootless podman. For my use it's a bit overkill anyways and I'm thinking of switching to something simpler. I've heart of #gitolite and #cgit or #gitweb as good alternatives but am open others.

Input and boosts appreciated! :ablobcatheartsqueeze:​

I have started moving my private #git repositories to #gitolite #selfhosted on a #raspberrypi at home. GitHub has its uses but git was built for decentralisation. I have previously experimented with self-hosting #gitea but I don't need a web interface or collaboration tools for my private libraries and data – SSH and a terminal suit me just fine.
https://gitolite.com/gitolite/index.html

I just learned of https://gitolite.com/gitolite/overview.html, which seems to be an alternative to #git forges like Github and Gitlab. If I'm not mistaken, I don't manage repos large enough to need it. But I love to see #GPL #FOSS stuff and to learn that some really big players are using #gitolite (Redhat, the Linux Kernel, KDE).

@ahnlak For a GitHub-like experience, I would recommend #Gitea like others did.

In my home infra I am happy with a much more minimal #gitolite.

It also might be that #git itself would be enough without any "repo managers" by using it directly to push over ssh to a remote bare repository. In this case I would also look into adding #cgit as a lightweight frontend.

Happy hacking!

#question for the #sysadmin / #linux folks; There is a lot of focus on the huge software deployments, for large companies with hundreds of employees.

But what of #software for #smallbusiness #deployment? Small software that can be run on modest hardware and fully utilized. Something that is meant for an IT department of 1-2 people.

Examples include using #Matrix or #XMPP for the internal chat system, #Gitolite for git and #OpenLDAP for authorization/authentication (w. backend).

@downey I wish someone would create a plug-in for #gitolite that enabled #git-lfs via #ssh and #rsync. Or something like it. That would be my perfect #git setup.

@zleap Since we're in the #fediverse, when you're ready to graduate to something more decentralized, I recommend #TexStudio combined with self-hosted #Git on #gitolite

I've had Overleaf go down hours before a grant deadline. My colleagues panicked, I had a copy of the proposal in my Git repo.

https://www.texstudio.org
https://gitolite.com/gitolite/index.html

Jen náhodou,nepoužíváte někdo na serveru #gitolite s #cgit ?
S instalací Gitolite problém nemám,jen nevím jak nastavit Cgit.Chtěl jsem to jen vyzkoušet,Cgit má pěkné webové rozhraní a na to mé učení a sváteční gitování je myslím :gitlab:
zbytečně složitý.

Atención, pregunta: ¿Qué otros usos más allá del propio de control de versiones de software se le puede dar a un entorno #git (#gitlab, #github, #gitolite, #gitea, etc.)? Solo por #curiosidad. 🐵

:calculate: We will switch from #Gitolite to #Gitea.

I have finally sorted out how to install #nginx and #gitweb on #guix. I now have git repositories viewable with gitweb, cloneable over https and #gitolite.

The only thing I haven't sort out is how to keep /var/lib/gitolite set to 750. guix system reconfigure and reboots set it back to 700.