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Might be more difficult for people with private repos, as I recall Codeberg doesn't like private repos on their platform.

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If you have a server, some cheap VPS will suffice, you can host a private git repo there without installing anything. Run this on your server:

     git init --bare foo.git

and then on your PC you can do this:

    git clone user@yourserver.com:~/foo.git

It's probably a good idea to make a separate user account on the server for it, though.

This is great, but you can also run foregjo (the server behind coderberg) on your VPS.

It is a single binary and I think it is also very light on resources. At least compared to gitlab.

I've actually been meaning to set up a forgejo instance on pikapods. Apparently it's 2 USD/month to do it.

I just noticed this, they dont allow private repos (with few exceptions)

I wonder why they dont just offer unlimited private repos for (reasonably) paid accounts , I think maybe a 40 dollar per year (or 4 dollar monthly), is low and encouraging , and should be welcomed by many , I hope they consider it

Codeberg is a German nonprofit. To keep their tax-advantaged status, anything they do has to follow the purpose established in their bylaws. That purpose is "to promote the creation, collection, distribution and preservation of Free Content (Open Content, Free Cultural Works) and Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) and their documentation in selfless work to enable equal opportunities regarding the access to knowledge and education. Furthermore, this also intends to raise awareness for the social and philosophical questions interconnected with this."

I imagine they would argue that private repositories do not follow this purpose, as they are neither free content nor FOSS. I believe you could argue that charging a modest fee for private repositories to finance the hosting of FOSS repositories is in line with the purpose, but you get on thinner ice with that. It could quickly make them appear more like a company than like a nonprofit

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