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Show HN: Sorcia – Self-hosted web front end for Git repositories, written in Go

#1

Post by mysticmode » Wed, Mar 25, 2020, 4:08 PM UTC

Show HN: Sorcia – Self-hosted web front end for Git repositories, written in Go
git.mysticmode.org

Re: Show HN: Sorcia – Self-hosted web front end for Git repositories, written in Go

#2

Post by mysticmode » Wed, Mar 25, 2020, 6:24 PM UTC

Hi, OP and author of the project here.

You could check the landing page of this project here: https://sorcia.mysticmode.org/

I've put up a FAQ and Features section with screenshots, so it is easy for you to look at it and see why I've built this software.

Re: Show HN: Sorcia – Self-hosted web front end for Git repositories, written in Go

#3

Post by jlelse » Wed, Mar 25, 2020, 8:41 PM UTC

Looks nice and clean. Minimalism. I like what I see in the screenshots.

Re: Show HN: Sorcia – Self-hosted web front end for Git repositories, written in Go

#4

Post by CameronNemo » Wed, Mar 25, 2020, 8:52 PM UTC

Glad to see new work in this space. Sorcia looks very clean, and well implemented.

I only noticed one issue, which is very much an edge case: when trying to view a file with third party JS disabled (i.e. the Cloudflare JS sourced script), the file is rendered quite poorly. Would be nice if the service degraded gracefully and used a simple pre tag or similar.

I must also admit that I am interested in a more "non-technical" git frontend -- one that puts the file tree up front and center, leaving details like remotes and commits in out of the way views.

If anyone is interested in other options, see also:

* https://git.nemo157.com/grarr (Rust, the UI themes are a little tacky IMHO) * https://github.com/emersion/matcha (also in Go, but not very complete or performant...)

Re: Show HN: Sorcia – Self-hosted web front end for Git repositories, written in Go

#5

Post by roguas » Wed, Mar 25, 2020, 9:07 PM UTC

I would consider different name for "tree". It ain't obvious to me if it is tree graph for my git tree or tree of catalogue in source.

Re: Show HN: Sorcia – Self-hosted web front end for Git repositories, written in Go

#6

Post by CameronNemo » Wed, Mar 25, 2020, 9:34 PM UTC

roguas wrote: post #5

I would consider different name for "tree". It ain't obvious to me if it is tree graph for my git tree or tree of catalogue in source.

OTOH, it is consistent with cgit.

Re: Show HN: Sorcia – Self-hosted web front end for Git repositories, written in Go

#7

Post by tdy721 » Wed, Mar 25, 2020, 9:43 PM UTC

Front end for git in go. Surely you stumbled across GOGS? https://gogs.io/

Re: Show HN: Sorcia – Self-hosted web front end for Git repositories, written in Go

#8

Post by mysticmode » Wed, Mar 25, 2020, 9:46 PM UTC

CameronNemo wrote: post #6

roguas wrote: post #5

I would consider different name for "tree". It ain't obvious to me if it is tree graph for my git tree or tree of catalogue in source.

OTOH, it is consistent with cgit.

Yes, my main inspiration is cgit. I mostly followed that and written in Go with some improved UI(which is what I was deliberately wanted to do).

Re: Show HN: Sorcia – Self-hosted web front end for Git repositories, written in Go

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Post by tedunangst » Wed, Mar 25, 2020, 9:58 PM UTC

jlelse wrote: post #3

Looks nice and clean. Minimalism. I like what I see in the screenshots.

screenshots?

Re: Show HN: Sorcia – Self-hosted web front end for Git repositories, written in Go

#10

Post by CameronNemo » Wed, Mar 25, 2020, 10:15 PM UTC

tdy721 wrote: post #7

Front end for git in go. Surely you stumbled across GOGS? https://gogs.io/

The FAQ explains how this differs from the like of gogs, gitea, phabricator, gitlab, and github.

It aims to provide a limited subset of the features they provide. More similar to cgit.