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Mandatory heads-up for those that haven't come across them: gogs [0] and its fork gitea [1] are zero config, download-and-run, self-hosted alternatives to GitHub/BitBucket/GitLab that won't suck the life out of your server, are efficiently written, and very fast even on underpowered (read: RPi) hardware or shared VPS nodes.

0: https://gogs.io/

1: https://gitea.io/en-US/

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But to be fair, Gitlab does a lot more than these. We use it at work for all the issue tracking, pipeline and CI, pages and wiki features beyond the simple GIT hosting.

I don't know about CI, but gogs/gitea does issues and wiki.

Not to forget the private Docker registry and basic project management (burndown, cross-project milestones, estimations, etc.)

Ironically, gitea is not even hosted by gitea. They are using github..

Maybe that's just because of GitHub's overwhelming popularity, hosting their code there is probably the best way to get attention and lots of contributors as they build up the product.

I can get behind that, but they should at least keep a mirror with gitea to demonstrate the product.

https://try.gitea.io/teepot/teekanne

See https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/1029.

I think public Open Source projects have very different needs than a small company or individual. It's a hard tradeoff because it's nice to use the same tools for everything, but it can also be a lot of extra, unnecessary steps to both teach and use everyday.

Like you said elsewhere, it would be good to have a mirror of it to show it off.

cgit is even faster

https://git.zx2c4.com/cgit/about/

I've never used it but as it appears to be made by the same guy that made password store[1] (i.e. "pass") then I've got a default high opinion of it. Will definitely be checking it out.

[1]: https://www.passwordstore.org/

And don't forget wireguard [1]. I'd argue that's even _more_ awesome. :)

[1] https://www.wireguard.com/

Had I known I'd have listed that. Seriously this guy is amazing.

Try out RhodeCode it focuses on Source Code Management with strong security and performance. Should be also a fast alternative.

cgit is nice, but it’s too reminiscent of the old CVS web interfaces for a lot of developers. Gogs (and therefore gitea) aimes to replicate the look and feel (and thereby the interactivity and ease-of-use) of GitHub from the start.

Do either of those have a way to organize a set repositories other than the primiative user/repo scheme that GitHub uses?

I want user/cat/repo, user/cat/subcat/repo, user/cat/subcat/subsubcat/repo, and so on.

Yip, GitLab has subgroups that allow you to organise projects like that, although it's not available for /user namespace, so you can create

groupa/subgroup/repo groupa/subgroup/subgroup/subgroup/etc/repo

https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/user/group/subgroups/

This feature is available for free on GitLab.com and is available for free in self-hosted GitLab CE

An honorable mention to https://notabug.org that is a public instance of Gogs. I don't think there is any public instance of Gitea.

I'd agree with this. gitea outperforms gitlab by a mile.

Do these scale horizontally? I know Github has an issue with scaling since it has a concept of private vm when you purchase the enterprise license.

Seconded for gogs. Gitlab is a bloated mess.

Please don't put your crown jewels i.e. your main source repo onto an RPi. I know it sounds neat, but you should probably skimp on the free avocado toasts instead.

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