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Interesting! recently I started self-hosting my personal repos using gogs (https://gogs.io/) it’s really lightweight, and I can evn run it in an arm64 box (the same one I use for my NAS).

If you’re looking for a more complete yet still lightweight alternative, give gogs a look.

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Also worth checking Gitea (https://gitea.io/en-us/) which is a popular fork of Gogs.

Some background for those that may be not know which one to choose. Gitea forked a while back due to the belief that the maintainer of Gogs was not moving fast enough. I can't speak for the quality, but the difference in activity level is extremely evident as the following shows:

Gogs

https://public-001.gitsense.com/insights/github/repos?r=gith...

Gitea

https://public-001.gitsense.com/insights/github/repos?r=gith...

What arm 64 box do you use? RPi4? I'm interested in having my own NAS but I want it to be seamless as possible, and I'm not sure if a raspberry pi would achieve that. That being said, I also don't want to spend too much lol... Perhaps I'm asking for much here

I have a rockpro64 with a 4xsata pcie card.

Which arm64 box do you use? People say I'm a sucker for these things but I like to think of myself as a collector :)

Does it have a single user mode?

You can disable registration (and authentication through third-party providers) if that's what you mean.

Personally I'd rather use gitea though. It has a more healthy development community (as in more than one developer) and is gaining new functionality at decent pace.

I mean if a single user is integrated in URI paths handling and in the webUI.

Like, can I get domain/repo.git somehow with no user management at all?

If you don't give out credentials Git itself and/or a repository browsing web interface are single user. Did you mean something else?

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