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Gogs – Go Git Service

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Post by of » Mon, Mar 28, 2016, 1:07 PM UTC

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Post by idoom » Mon, Mar 28, 2016, 1:42 PM UTC

Thumbs up, docker image (https://github.com/gogits/gogs/tree/master/docker) works great and is easy to setup. I've had it running for a while on a machine and stopped paying for github :)

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Post by ihowlatthemoon » Mon, Mar 28, 2016, 1:45 PM UTC

Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9210978

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Post by FiloSottile » Mon, Mar 28, 2016, 1:51 PM UTC

For extra ease and security (two things not often found together!) try setting it up in a Sandstorm server, works with one click and is sandboxed from the rest of your server. https://sandstorm.io/

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Post by Rapzid » Mon, Mar 28, 2016, 2:03 PM UTC

How viable would alternate backends be? Like say, AWS CodeCommit?

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Post by fweespee_ch » Mon, Mar 28, 2016, 2:07 PM UTC

If anyone is interested in trying it, the packages are pretty good at keeping your installation up to date:

https://gogs.io/docs/installation/install_from_packages

It is what I use for my misc things at home.

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Post by Udo » Mon, Mar 28, 2016, 2:10 PM UTC

I've been using Gogs now for a few months and can't recommend it enough as opposed to GitLab. It does have some rough edges (for example the many instances where its CSRF protection feature misfires), but generally it's a very solid and performant git frontend. Although a plugin or widget system would be nice, it was also easy to extend the Gogs UI simply by editing its very straight-forward template files.

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Post by aaronpk » Mon, Mar 28, 2016, 2:15 PM UTC

I wrote about how and why I switched to Gogs from GitLab and Bitbucket here: https://aaronparecki.com/2016/02/13/18/

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Post by tazjin » Mon, Mar 28, 2016, 2:21 PM UTC

Been using this for a while now and very happy with it. I decided to stop using Github for personal projects due to political disagreements with the company and the fact that git should really not be centralised.

Gogs has probably 95% feature parity with Github and it is a lot faster (is Github still Ruby? That would explain it ...)

I run a personal Kubernetes cluster for services and getting Gogs up and running was super-simple: https://git.tazj.in/tazjin/infrastructure/src/master/gogs/go...

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Post by mbrock » Mon, Mar 28, 2016, 2:26 PM UTC

tazjin wrote: post #9

Been using this for a while now and very happy with it. I decided to stop using Github for personal projects due to political disagreements with the company and the fact that git should really not be centralised. Gogs has probably 95% feature parity with Github and it is a lot faster (is Github still Ruby? That would explain it ...) I run a personal Kubernetes cluster for services and getting Gogs up and running was…

How can you compare speeds when you can't run GitHub on your setup? Running a multimillion user service is vastly different from running your own personal server, right?