Update

Forgejo seemed to be the winning answer so I tried setting it up. Total setup time was less than 10 minutes. I pushed 10 repositories to test it out and so far it seems pretty good. Thank you everyone for the answers!

As the title states, I am looking to host maybe ~100 git repositories locally on my home network.

I’m not planning on doing anything too crazy with my repositories. The solution doesn’t need to support like 1000s of contributors however it should support the most basic features such as being able to see individual commits, branches, diffs, maybe some PR related mechanism, a web GUI, etc.

I don’t like to tinker too much. The solution should work and be stable. Stability is a hard requirement. I want to write code and not have to worry about losing it. Yes I will make backups.

Please let me know what some of the best options are at the moment. Thank you!

  • lime!@feddit.nuEnglish
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    12 days ago

    if it wasn’t for the webui, a bare git repo would suffice. any repo can be a remote. it’s distributed, after all.

    forgejo is the most popular choice right now.

    if you wanna be extra you can host git-pr

  • Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyzBEnglish
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    8 days ago

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    Git Popular version control system, primarily for code
    SSH Secure Shell for remote terminal access
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  • fizzle@quokk.auEnglish
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    12 days ago

    Forgejo seemed to be the winning answer so I tried setting it up. Total setup time was less than 10 minutes.

    Just a heads up… I haven’t looked at this since forever ago (when foregjo was gitea), but make sure you have a restore plan. I think there’s a dump command but no restore.

  • slowtrain33@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    12 days ago

    I’ve set up a few gitlab servers at companies and it’s always been well received. Doing it from scratch may be more complex than you want, but I think there are docker images for a more turnkey type solution. And the option of building CI/CD pipelines in the future is always nice to have.

  • cecilkorik@piefed.caEnglish
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    12 days ago

    I love Forgejo, I’m glad you are happy with it too. Their upgrade process is pretty minimal/straightforward (at least it has been so far) and their runner configuration is a bit heavy to set up initially (I maybe took the security recommendations a bit too intensively despite the fact that I’m running a completely private site, but allowing systems that run arbitrary commands automatically is legitimately a bit intimidating) but has been really nice and reliable now that it’s working.

  • xombie21@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    12 days ago

    Gitea is the answer, configure/install with docker. I have had mine going for a few years now and haven’t had to touch it besides updating the docker container which I automated.

  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
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    12 days ago

    It’s monstrous, but gitlab installs from one big RPM on a base box; and with one config file you’re up.

      • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
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        8 days ago

        For sure. And their bumbling has made it harder to deactivate all the useless bloat and get the good web-editor back. And a host of other mind-numbingly short-sighted decisions that show they’re fully run by LostBoy coders who were never mentored and just don’t know better.

        But tuning can come after. And their CI is way fucking better than forgejo’s facepalm of a GitHub clone. And that’s a thin reason, but, yeah.

        • foggy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          8 days ago

          Yep.

          It’s like they wanna get bought to compete with GitHub or something.

          They’re moving fast and breaking things. And bloating their product in the process. In the last 24 months they paid over $1M to a single bug bounty hunter who basically took them to the cleaners.

          But totally agree. It’s the best UX, best product for home lab or even small enterprise use if you’ve got someone to get it tuned appropriately.