Soft Serve is a git server for the command line. You can see the maintainersâ version here, with ssh:
It looks like this:
Benefits
The setup takes no time, with very few steps - just give it a few variables in /etc/soft, start the service, and start pushing.
Once youâve given it your admin ssh keys, you can push repositories without setting them up beforehand. Just enter the repository, and do:
Everything can be performed from the command line, so I managed to mirror a full gitea instance with a little bash script.
The underlying structure lets you see the inner workings very clearly.
Disadvantages
Using git-lfs requires a few more setup steps.
If you want automatic user sign-up, youâll have to add it yourself. Of course, if you can access everyoneâs ssh keys, itâs easy enough to add.
And of course, as this is cli-only, thatâll put some people off. That said, for most projects this might help with quality control.