How I Host My Own GIT Service

Mon, 27 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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GitLab : I’ve read reviews, and it’s comparable to GitHub, while at the same time, really resource intensive.
Gitea : I’ve used, has a nice looking GUI, and provides many features, that I as a solo developer mostly won’t use. It’s less resource heavy than GitLab, but I still realized, it always stood on top of my htop.
cgit : A very lightweight, simple looking Git frontend written in C. This won’t provide many features like Gitea or GitLab, and you’ll have do do everything yourselves : creating git repos, changing descriptions, adding users, etc… but it’s all simple.

I used Gitea, and then switched to cgit soon after that. My main reason was I wanted something that looks as simple as what the linux kernel developers use out there : git.kernel.org. So this guide is for those who want to use cgit to host their git repo.

Self-Hosting on Siddharth Mishra

How I Host My Own GIT Service

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