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title = "Git Migration to Gitea"
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date = 2021-02-20
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[taxonomies]
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tags = ["Golang","Git","Gitea","Web Development"]
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As part of the continuing web site redesign I have migrated the git repo from
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Gitweb to Gitea.<!-- more -->
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Gitweb is a perl CGI script included with the git source distribution. It is very
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basic, but does allow viewing repositories and provides url's for cloning. There
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isn't anything particularly wrong with gitweb, but it's not exactly pretty and
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requires running a CGI on the server.
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Gitea is written in Go and is a complete solution in a single binary. If anything,
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gitea is a bit overkill for our purpose, but it looks great, provides an easy to
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use interface for creating and managing repositories, and is quite easy on
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resource utilization. As it runs it's own server, it also enabled me to put it
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on another machine and just use a reverse proxy from the public facing server.
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Those two machines (both Raspberry Pi's) are now dedicated to a single function
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and running quite happily. It has also made my server configuration quite a bit
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more simple.
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Of note, gitea is now the only dynamic content provider on hitchhiker-linux.org.
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Everything else is static pages. I have taken the time to begin writing a handbook
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and posting the source to gitea, which can be built and perused offline if
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desired, which will be useful to new users upon first installing the system.
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