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Personal Git server on BrainyPi

Description: Gogs aims to build a simple, stable and extensible self-hosted Git service that can be set up easily. This can be done with independent binary distribution across all platforms that Go supports, Linux, macOS, Windows and ARM-based systems.

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Steps to Install:

  1. Copy and paste the following lines into a terminal:

    sudo apt update
    sudo apt upgrade

    sudo apt install mariadb-server git unzip

    sudo mysql_secure_installation

  2. Now just press enter and answer some questions according to how you want the access to be set.

  3. Run the below commands.

    sudo mysql -u root -p

    CREATE DATABASE gogs;

    GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON gogs.* TO 'goguser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'pimylifeup';

    FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

    exit

    sudo adduser --disabled-login git

    cd /home/git
    sudo wget https://dl.gogs.io/0.12.3/gogs_0.12.3_linux_armv7.zip -O gogs.zip
    sudo unzip gogs.zip
    sudo rm gogs.zip

    sudo chown -R git:git /home/git

    sudo systemctl enable /home/git/gogs/scripts/systemd/gogs.service

    sudo systemctl start gogs.service

    sudo systemctl status gogs.service

  4. Gogs will be installed.

Useful for: Open Source, build a simple, stable and extensible self-hosted Git service that can be set up in the most painless way.

Link to original project: https://github.com/gogs/gogs

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