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In this article I’ll walk you through how you can run your own gitea instance. But first What is gitea? Gitea is a painless selfhosted Git service. It is written in Go and is extremely lightweight. I run a gitea instance on my Le Potato and it barely uses any resources. Why use gitea (vs GitHub, GitLab etc) I started running my own Gitea instance because I wanted a private place to host my Obsidian notes.

I’ve recently set up my own Gitea instance and I figured I’d share a simple guide on how to do it yourself. Hopefully this will be helpful to anyone looking to get started.

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    • @rezifonEnglish
      2•28 days ago

      I spent a decade as a full time Tcl developer and even I don’t use fossil.

      • JackbyDevEnglish
        2•28 days ago

        After dealing with tcl errors trying to test sqlite, I feel I’ve never seen a more scathing criticism of fossil.

      • JackbyDevEnglish
        1•9 days ago

        I love love love that Fossil is a single executable.

        All in all, the version control wars have ended and git has won. Mercurial is another one I sort of wanna try just to see what it’s like.

        Re: rebasing, I think squashing / rebasing (in place of merging) is bad but I am also one of the few people I know who tries to make a good history with good commit messages prior to opening a pull request by using interactive rebasing. (This topic is confusing to talk about because I have to say “I don’t rebase, instead o rebase” which can be confusing.)