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by rigid 783 days ago
not sure how lightweight any of these are, but https://gitolite.com/gitolite/ just needs git and ssh deployed. And it works like a charm.
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q0uaur 783 days ago
running all my homelab / private repos off of a tiny gitolite3 server, and i'm always amazed that it all runs on an alpine linux VM that uses 75mb of RAM.

for anything even just sharing with friends or whatnot i won't recommend it though, people do love their web-UI and having to explicitly give someone access can turn off people already.

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remram 782 days ago
For a single author, if you have a server with SSH, you don't need Gitolite at all.

The lack of anonymous public access is often a deal-breaker though.

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rigid 782 days ago
For a single author you don't necessarily need any server at all. A cloud directory or zip files work well.

But gitolite is so easy to setup & maintain, it's not a big difference and for r/w-access management within teams, it's priceless.

I guess one could even hack anonymous access with "PermitEmptyPasswords yes" and "AuthenticationMethods none"

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remram 782 days ago
No Gitolite requires keys.
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rigid 781 days ago
Hence "hack". It needs keys for administration but at a first glance, I see no reason why a git-anon user couldn't be part of gitolite's git user.
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remram 781 days ago
You might need to use another user if you want to set its shell to `gitolite-shell username` (no command= for password authentication) but then you'd need to chain sudo or something to have Gitolite run under its own user again... Seems very tricky.

Or maybe you can write a shell that runs a gitolite-shell command is its arguments are not already gitolite-shell?

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