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In this article I’ll walk you through how you can run your own gitea instance. But first What is gitea? Gitea is a painless selfhosted Git service. It is written in Go and is extremely lightweight. I run a gitea instance on my Le Potato and it barely uses any resources. Why use gitea (vs GitHub, GitLab etc) I started running my own Gitea instance because I wanted a private place to host my Obsidian notes.

I’ve recently set up my own Gitea instance and I figured I’d share a simple guide on how to do it yourself. Hopefully this will be helpful to anyone looking to get started.

If you have any feedback please feel free to comment it bellow.

  • cizra@lemm.eeEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I started running my own Gitea instance because I wanted a private place to host my Obsidian notes.

    I don’t have the time to read the article now, but permit a question: what do you use Gitea for?

    I’m holding my dotfiles on a SSH server, clone/push over SSH, and it’s enough to do Git. I don’t need a ticket system, or wiki or anything (I use plaintext notes).

    $ cat ~/.ssh/config
Host srv
  Hostname srv.mywhatever.com

$ git clone srv:/path/to/repo
$ cd repo
$ git push
    • 4rkal@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      11 months ago

      Great question

      I always found setting up a git server from scratch to be quite confusing and I also like the webui that gitea offers.

      But recently I have also started moving some of my github projects there so having a link (with a readme and everything) that I can share with others is important.