Forgejo: https://forgejo.org ...

"Forgejo is a Free Software platform for collaboration and productivity in software development. It offers a familiar environment to GitHub users, easy installation and maintenance, and a focus on security, scaling, federation and privacy."

... codeberg has a nice setup (via forgejo) if you don't want to self-host.

#git #forgejo #scm #vcs #sources #source #code #vps #gitlab #github #codeberg #hosting

How to setup a self-hosted #git server at home using just #cli and #ssh, without using #gitea or #gogs , so you can migrate your personal projects away from #Bitbucket or #github or #gitlab https://vikaskumar.org/2026/05/01/setup-self-hosted-git-server.html

I have been using GitHub (https://github.com/steinbring) for a long time, and I have been seeing a lot of people dunking on it lately (e.g., https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-leaving-github) because of its many failings. I don't think that something like Codeberg (https://codeberg.org) or Bitbucket (https://bitbucket.org) is the answer because there is still a central point of failure and hosting bills to pay. I like the fact that things like ForgeFed (https://forgefed.org) and tangled (https://tangled.org) exist to at least federate comms.

I really don't know what the answer is.

#Github #ForgeFed #Tangled #Git #SourceControl

I used #Claude to create meaningful commit messages for git, and I just noticed that it's adding:

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

to every commit.

#Anthropic #DevLife #git

Git turns 21! 🥳

#opensource #git #programming

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Happy 21st Birthday git 7 April 2005

@charliemac It would be good if you adapted some of this into an explicit #emacs #magit #git tutorial

I. CORRECTIONS:

(1) The notation has square brackets for the old version:
[-old-]{+new+}
—I made several typos in the original post.

(2) The incantation is `git diff --word-diff=plain'.

II. NOTES:

(a) There is also --word-diff-regex="." marking differences at single character granularity.

(b) Sometimes I run `git diff' directly from the command line and sometimes from another environment, such as Emacs.
The defaults may vary.

@dougmerritt

#Diff
#Git
#GitDiff
#SoftwareTools

Can I have some recommendations for the privacy respecting web-based platform for version control and repository management? Ditching Github once for all

#programming #git #versioncontrol #privacy

Why did Gentoo choose Codebeg over alternatives?

#gentoo #git #github #codeberg

Why not listen to @tanakian 's stream today instead: https://toobnix.org/w/cVxKX6WZCLBHNzrw4NiWMq

#lispyGopherClimate Sunday-morning-in-Europe #peertube LIVE .

Short show. #archive https://toobnix.org/w/rzDtsQPUf4Kudrq4xZCAy9

https://toobnix.org/w/gXLXQqxf5MYg1NDF2Ua6oA

No gremlins (hopefully).

Just #eev #git and #slime #commonLisp #elisp useage. Then I am going to compare #ai to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blast_fishing and changes since #gof_ai .

Also! I am going to be away for the following two weeks, sorry about the unscheduled downtime.

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The Halloween Lispy Gopher Show banner. The lisp alien has a very long neck (and many terrifying eyes). The gopher looks on, concerned.

Git is the key to the code multiverse

#code #git #programming #turtlesallthewaydown

Sites built with Gogs (for self-hosting) are getting clobbered at the moment.

#Git #Gogs #CVE

https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/10/gogs_0day_under_active_exploitation/?td=rt-3a

Did you ever OH FUCK!! committed AND pushed a HUGE DIR containing a MASS of files (you know git add . *never* do that) that will FOREVER pollute your #git repo, making you the BUTT of the JOKE whenever any team member wants to pull/push the repo?

Enter BFG.

https://rtyley.github.io/bfg-repo-cleaner/

It's written in #Scala, the language of royalty.

Thank me later. Seriously, thank me, I insist.

This shit will blow-your-mind.

A feature that’s currently missing from @forgejo (and thus @Codeberg) is the ability to move issues between repositories (see https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/issues/1280).

Thankfully, Benjamin Melançon created Forego Helpers with a move_issue.py script that does this using the Forgejo API. Sadly, the script has a bug in it (a tiny regression introduced during a refactor) and their Forgejo instance doesn’t have signups so I couldn’t create a pull request, so here is a fork for the time being that you can use:

https://codeberg.org/aral/forgego-helpers

While fixing the bug, I also updated the project to use uv (https://docs.astral.sh/uv/) – think of it as a single tool that’s the equivalent of nvm and npm in Node.js that makes Python, well, usable out of the box.

So to move issue #299 from kitten/app to kitten/site on Codeberg, for example, you’d run the following in your terminal:

```shell
uv run move_issue.py kitten app 299 kitten site
```

That will move the issue (including comments), comment on both the old and new issues to link them together, and then close the old issue.

Enjoy!

#forgejo #codeberg #issues #repositories #git #movingIssues #python #uv #tools

# "Using LibreOffice and other Free software for documents as a lawyer"

I was asked recently about how I get on using LibreOffice for document-related legal work, and I promised to write down some thoughts.

The short answer is that I use a mix of LibreOffice and other FOSS tools, and I’m very positive about it, with no particular concerns.

If you have questions, please do ask!

https://neilzone.co.uk/2025/11/using-libreoffice-and-other-free-software-for-documents-as-a-lawyer/

#LibreOffice #Linux #FOSS #lawfedi #vim #git #Markdown

Thanks to the incomparable @someodd I am once again buried deep underground

gopher://gopher.someodd.zip/1/hosted/screwlisps-kitten

gopher://gopher.someodd.zip/1/hosted

Mirroring git snapshots over the #gopher protocol is an absolutely wonderful and convenient service.

Further, gopher specially works as a directory browser of text (and other) files, which is just what you want for #git in the first place !

I interviewed her at some point if someone has the link ;p

I submitted a Pull Request to update MacPorts' GoT to -portable 0.119 here:

https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/29502

GitHub Continuous Integration checks passed OK. It's up to someone else with commit access to merge it.

I also prepared an article submission for undeadly.org (though I'll leave it up to one of the other editors to do a sanity check and publish).

CC: @stsp@bsd.network

One thing I wondered while adding manpage URLs for that, RE:

add a 'weblogin' command to gotsh for use with gotwebd user authentication

Would it be helpful to add something about weblogin to gotsh's manpage's EXAMPLES?

Or, maybe it's documented somewhere else and I just looked in the wrong place? Which has me wondering how much would be involved to make https://gameoftrees.org/manual.html searchable as https://man.openbsd.org is?

#GameOfTrees #GoT #MacPorts #VersionControl #OpenSource #Git

I definitely need to figure out a better workflow for my FreeBSD commits.

I do my development on another box, but as my laptop is kinda my hub, I have to pull the branches through that before pushing to the machine that can do commits.

Though now that I've done a few recently, it's a little bit easier, but it's annoying to have to checkout a tree to do a rebase. I'm sure there's a way to do a checkout-less rebase, but I really don't want to read the rebase man page well enough to understand it since the first statement says you can't (that it does a git switch).

#git #FreeBSD

aside from gitnex, what are your favourite apps to use for forgejo/codeberg on android?

bonus points if it works for other forges, but tbh the only other one i care about is sourcehut (i love you @ddevault)

@forgejo @Codeberg
#git #forgejo #codeberg #android #boost

@XLibreDev @antijingoist @resingm well, I've read enough drama re: this whole ordeal.

• The original idea (make a new #Xorg release so people don't use random #git snapshots) might've been noble but got self-sabotaged by an unbearable (as in ESR & RMS) maintainer giving everyone the finger.

Or to put it in simple terms:

• "Please, fork off!"

As shitty as it may seem, #Xorg is 'on live support' (like a braindead organ donor) and #Xlibre won't change the fact that the course of #Wayland is locked in.

• It feels like #HDVMD: A hack that isn't gonna be the future.

OFC people have the right to build their own Wayland & #SystemD-free #Linux or #Unix-esque distro.

• I just don't see anyone wanting to build drivers for at best 1% of Desktops and nieche Distros not following #LSB conventions.

Instead I'm convinced #Wayback by @ariadne will be the solution for the problem when it comes to #X11 applications & desktops that don't work on #Xwayland!

Alright this^ will be live in 8 hours. If you will be asleep, leave questions and comments for me to ask @publicvoit here!

I wrote this fallback sketch of ideas
- #emacs and #orgmode seem almost synonymous
- Outside emacs users, projects add a #markdown flavor instead
- #IDE
- Implications of #orgDown (#orgUp ?) having a built-in major mode
- #git READMEs
- non-emacs #org support (#commonLisp cl-org-mode , cl-el ..), elisps like @ramin_hal9001 #schemacs , #lem

(thanks @sacha's #emacsnews)

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LISPY GOPHER SHOW A gopher and the lisp alien wade through flooded wreckage carrying radio equipment, helped by two demons. 0UTC Wednesdays (but it's 8am UTC / Zulu time Sunday this time)

After multiple Fediverse successes, I have put together an article that not only tells you that "git exclude" exists, but also how and when to use it.

Enjoy it now on my blog!

https://marijkeluttekes.dev/blog/articles/2025/09/03/git-exclude-a-handy-feature-you-might-not-know-about/

#git #webDev #programming

It’s interesting that `git exclude` seems to be a relatively unknown feature.

(Then again, there is so much to git.)

It is so handy for personal and temporary files.

I use it for justfiles in other people’s projects, for example.

I also use it for a personal Django management command where I can run random code from.

Since my git blame config breaks if I don’t have `.git-blame-ignore-revs` in a repo, I also make that file if needed.

Check out git exclude if you haven’t yet!

#git

What #OpenSource and #SelfHost can do. Had an idea, discussed it here. Seemed to rhyme with people. Booked two domains. Created a landing page with #Jekyll and CI/CD from a #git repo on my #Forgejo instance. Created logo with #Inkscape. Added #letsencrypt certificate. Put it on my VPS (Virtual Private Server) running Red Hat Enterprise Linux, (#RHEL) where it is now served with #Nginx. Git repo mirrored to #Codeberg so all can join. In under 8h.

https://devbnb.eu

https://codeberg.org/jwildeboer/devbnb

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Current simple landing page for devBnB. Simple, elegant design with a logo that renders fine from mobile to widescreen.

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Building the static pages for the website automatically with the forgejo runner that runs after every push to the repo.