Gitea all the way.
Lightweight (can run on a RPi unlike GitLab), does everything you expect, can work with SQLite or MySQL/MariaDB or PostgreSQL, and can sync remote (GitHub/Bitbucket/whatever) repositories locally.
Poll: Self Hosting Git Repositories
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#12If you don't need a front-end, push and pull directly from git. https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-on-the-Server-Setting-Up-...
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#13Gitea (originally a fork of Gogs) is moving fast, and they are adding ActivityPub federation support to the software. This will allow you to collaborate with projects hosted on remote Gitea instances (and other software once they add federation support too). If you are working on FOSS then Codeberg [1] is a good Gitea instance, which offer Woodpecker CI and Codeberg Pages.
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#14I voted "other": I just put bare git repositories on my VPS, and interact with them over SSH. Tiny and simple cgit exposes a read-only HTTPS interface for the repos that I want to share publicly.
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#15Gitea. Also, there are GitNex (mobile app for Gitea) and Jenkins plugin.
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#16Gogs / gitea fan here. Used both, can recommend either. One-liner docker command to set up & a simple docker-compose.yml to declare everything in one place.
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#18Suggestion: Don't.*
But, if you have your mind set: GitLab is great.
(It WILL break at one point or another, and you will need to do recovery)
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#19As long as you are not looking to go totally all in [0] on GitHub or any SaSS based solution then either self-host solution option is fine.
ReactOS is a fine example of this: [1]
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#20I have a git folder in my home directory that I use syncthing to mirror.
I guess I would like a web interface that ran locally to provide other features, but the close to 0-maintenance and complete privacy of this works for me.