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Soft Serve is a git server for the command line. You can see the maintainers' version here, with ssh:
ssh git.charm.sh
It looks like this:
Soft Serve
• Repositories About
┃ Bubble Tea
Updated 31 minutes ago
┃ A powerful little TUI framework [mirror]
┃ git clone git@git.charm.sh:bubbletea.git
Soft Serve
Updated 3 days ago
A tasty, self-hostable Git server for the command line [mirror]
git clone git@git.charm.sh:soft-serve.git
The setup takes no time, with very few steps - just give it a few variables in `/etc/soft`, start the service, and start pushing.
Once you've given it your admin ssh keys, you can push repositories without setting them up beforehand. Just enter the repository, and do:
git remote add soft ssh -p $PORT_NO $DOMAIN
git push soft master
Everything can be performed from the command line, so I managed to mirror a full gitea instance with a little bash script.
The underlying structure lets you see the inner workings very clearly.
The git cannot handle `git-lfs`, although the devs have a plan to add support.
If you want automatic user sign-up, you'll have to add it yourself. Of course, if you can access everyone's ssh keys, it's easy enough to add.
And of course, as this is cli-only, that'll put some people off. That said, for most projects this might help with quality control.