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Show HN: My Private GitHub on Postgres

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by xp84

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"doesn't support: ... Web UI."
So, it's a git server with an interesting storage layer? Don't get me wrong, that part sounds like it might have been a ton of work to implement, but I think the web UI (pull requests, etc) is a lot of what Github has won on historically.
Basically I don't feel qualified to judge the product itself, but I think positioning it against Github, while popular given the recent hard times, isn't quite correct.

by hk1337

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Interesting idea but what's the use case for this? Why wouldn't I just create a private git server (gitlab, forgejo, etc) just for myself?

by solid_fuel

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I can't even view the commits because GitHub is claiming I'm over a request rate limit. This is the first time I've even opened GitHub today. Time to knock another 9 off their status page.

by lisperforlife

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This is really cool. PG has zlib compression on TOAST objects so this should still be okay even if you are not storing pack files. I am curious with your choice of hand-rolling pktline, upload-pack and receive pack implementations including rev-walking. Any particular reason you did not want to use libgit2 or something like the gitoxide implementation of pkt-line. Was it performance or is it because you wanted it to be in pure rust? Did you try running this on slightly heavier repository with a lot of commits, refs and objects?

by supriyo-biswas

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I've always wanted to write something like this. The problem with Gitlab/Gitea etc. is their reliance on disk storage; which means self hosting them requires that I get the backup story just right. Whereas with this, I could just handle it as part of the database backup process.
Having no web UI, at least even a rudimentary one is kinda a bummer though.

by iririririr

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by throwatdem12311

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by bitbasher

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by JasonHEIN

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by Mic92

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by vishal_ch

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Interesting approach using Postgres as the storage layer. Curious how you're handling the object model since Git's content-addressable storage maps pretty differently to relational tables. Are you storing blobs as bytea or going with something like a JSONB tree structure for the commit graph?

by Backtrawen

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