A Git Server Is Two Packages and a Location Block

Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A git forge is a large piece of software. Gitea, Forgejo and GitLab all give you issues, pull requests, accounts and CI, and all of them want hundreds of megabytes of memory to do it.

If what you want is somewhere to git clone from that is not GitHub, you need none of that. git already ships a server. nginx already speaks CGI. The whole thing is two packages and one location block.

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A Git Server Is Two Packages and a Location Block