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

  • @WIPocket@lemmy.worldEnglish
    50•12 hours ago

    The really simple setup for a single user is just a SSH server with access to storage and the git command. Assuming your laptop and desktop have SSH access to server, you can just:

    ssh server git init --bare somerepo
cd somerepo
git remote add server server:somerepo
git push --set-upstream somerepo master #(or main)

    and then git clone server:somerepo.

    For something slightly higher-tech, I recommend going with Forgejo (the fork of Gitea). It is really easy to set up and low maintainance.

    Avoid GitLab for small setups, it is fairly resource hungry.

    • PortNullEnglish
      5•11 hours ago

      This is the correct answer

      For something more than bare got and lower than forgejo I can recommend soft-serve

  • @darkan15@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5•12 hours ago

    The simplest (really the simplest) would be to do a git init --bare in a directory on one machine, and that way you can clone, push or pull from it, with the directory path as URL from the same machine and using ssh from the other (you could do this bare repo inside a container but really would be complicating it), you would have to init a new bare repo per project in a new directory.

    If a self-hosted server meaning something with a web UI to handle multiple repositories with pull requests, issues, etc. like your own local Github/Gitlab. The answer is forgejo (this link has the instructions to deploy with docker), and if you want to see how that looks like there is an online public instance called codeberg where the forgejo code is hosted, alongside other projects.

  • @BOFH666@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2•12 hours ago

    If you fancy a nice webbased interface, Forgejo. Git bare with cgit is an option of course, but running the single application for Forgejo will you lots of fun.

  • @solrize@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1•12 hours ago

    I’ve played with Gitea a little and it was easy to set up, but I didn’t need the web stuff. So as others have suggested, I just set up a bare git repo in one place, then git clone it over ssh in the other place, and push and pull to it. So that’s an SVN-like model with a central repo, plus a few other places using it and sometimes pushing code to it that I manually pull when needed to the others.

    All this stuff with docker containers seems like ridiculous overkill.