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Nick Guenther 7d1ebb124d git-annex support
[git-annex](https://git-annex.branchable.com/) is a more complicated cousin to
git-lfs, storing large files in an optional-download side content.  Unlike lfs,
it allows mixing and matching storage remotes, so the content remote(s) doesn't
need to be on the same server as the git remote, making it feasible to scatter
a collection across cloud storage, old harddrives, or anywhere else storage can
be scavenged.  Since this can get complicated, fast, it has a content-tracking
database (`git annex whereis`) to help find everything later.

The use-case we imagine for including it in Gitea is just the simple case, where
we're primarily emulating git-lfs: each repo has its large content at the same URL.

Our motivation is so we can self-host https://www.datalad.org/ datasets, which
currently are only hostable by fragilely scrounging together cloud storage --
and having to manage all the credentials associated with all the pieces -- or at
https://openneuro.org which is fragile in its own ways.

Supporting git-annex also allows multiple Gitea instance to be annex remotes for
each other, mirroring the content or otherwise collaborating the split up the
hosting costs.

Enabling
--------

TODO

HTTP
----

TODO

Permission Checking
-------------------

This tweaks the API in routers/private/serv.go to expose the calling user's
computed permission, instead of just returning HTTP 403.

This doesn't fit in super well. It's the opposite from how the git-lfs support is
done, where there's a complete list of possible subcommands and their matching
permission levels, and then the API compares the requested with the actual level
and returns HTTP 403 if the check fails.

But it's necessary. The main git-annex verbs, 'git-annex-shell configlist' and
'git-annex-shell p2pstdio' are both either read-only or read-write operations,
depending on the state on disk on either end of the connection and what the user
asked it to ask for, with no way to know before git-annex examines the situation.
So tell the level via GIT_ANNEX_READONLY and trust it to handle itself.

In the older Gogs version, the permission was directly read in cmd/serv.go:

```
mode, err = db.UserAccessMode(user.ID, repo)
```
- 966e925cf3/internal/cmd/serv.go (L334)

but in Gitea permission enforcement has been centralized in the API layer.
(perhaps so the cmd layer can avoid making direct DB connections?)

Deletion
--------

git-annex has this "lockdown" feature where it tries
really quite very hard to prevent you deleting its
data, to the point that even an rm -rf won't do it:
each file in annex/objects/ is nested inside a
folder with read-only permissions.

The recommended workaround is to run chmod -R +w when
you're sure you actually want to delete a repo. See
https://git-annex.branchable.com/internals/lockdown

So we edit util.RemoveAll() to do just that, so now
it's `chmod -R +w && rm -rf` instead of just `rm -rf`.
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.devcontainer devpod use go1.21 (#26637) 2023-08-21 16:20:50 +00:00
.forgejo [CI] upgrade moved to https://code.forgejo.org/forgejo/end-to-end/ 2023-12-19 23:44:34 +01:00
.gitea [WORKFLOW] yaml issue templates 2023-11-13 12:33:49 +01:00
.github Fix Docker meta action for releases (#28232) (#28395) 2023-12-08 13:41:16 +01:00
assets Merge branch 'rebase-v1.21/forgejo-branding' into wip-v1.21-forgejo 2023-11-13 16:47:18 +01:00
build [I18N] Add Locale merger script (squash) abort on NOOP 2023-11-28 17:52:11 +01:00
cmd git-annex support 2024-04-26 09:21:50 +02:00
contrib [BRANDING] parse FORGEJO__* in the container environment 2023-11-13 14:00:15 +01:00
custom/conf Add option to disable ambiguous unicode characters detection (#28454) (#28499) 2023-12-22 12:07:01 +01:00
docker [BRANDING] cosmetic s/Gitea/Forgejo/ in logs, messages, etc. 2023-11-13 13:58:17 +01:00
docs Update actions document about comparsion as Github Actions (#28560) (#28564) 2023-12-22 12:10:03 +01:00
models Revert "improve possible performance bottleneck (#28547) (#28578)" 2023-12-22 16:52:28 +01:00
modules git-annex support 2024-04-26 09:21:50 +02:00
options Only check online runner when detecting matching runners in workflows (#28286) (#28512) 2023-12-22 12:10:03 +01:00
public [BRANDING] security.txt 2023-11-13 14:01:11 +01:00
releases/images [DOCS] RELEASE-NOTES.md 2023-11-13 12:33:48 +01:00
routers git-annex support 2024-04-26 09:21:50 +02:00
services Add option to disable ambiguous unicode characters detection (#28454) (#28499) 2023-12-22 12:07:01 +01:00
snap set version in snapcraft yaml 2023-09-13 23:20:46 -04:00
templates Fix 500 error of searching commits (#28576) (#28579) 2023-12-22 12:10:04 +01:00
tests [GITEA] Remove redundant syncBranchToDB 2023-12-21 11:07:41 +00:00
web_src Polyfill SubmitEvent for PaleMoon (#28441) (#28478) 2023-12-22 12:05:11 +01:00
.air.toml Reduce verbosity of dev commands (#24917) 2023-05-24 20:11:04 +00:00
.changelog.yml Adapt .changelog.yml to new labeling system (#27701) (#27702) 2023-10-20 00:29:50 +02:00
.dockerignore Move public asset files to the proper directory (#25907) 2023-07-18 18:06:43 +02:00
.editorconfig Add markdownlint (#20512) 2022-07-28 09:22:47 +08:00
.eslintrc.yaml Update JS and PY dependencies (#27501) (#27518) 2023-10-08 19:31:33 +02:00
.gitattributes [META] Use correct language for .tmpl 2023-11-13 12:33:48 +01:00
.gitignore [I18N] Makefile + gitignore 2023-11-13 13:57:47 +01:00
.gitpod.yml Add Github related extensions in devcontainer (#25800) 2023-07-14 15:58:02 +08:00
.golangci.yml Use Go 1.21 for golangci-lint (#26786) 2023-08-29 16:25:24 +02:00
.ignore Add /public/assets to .ignore (#26232) 2023-07-30 12:34:20 +02:00
.markdownlint.yaml Enable markdownlint no-duplicate-header (#27500) (#27506) 2023-10-07 21:41:41 +08:00
.npmrc Upgrade to npm lockfile v3 and explicitely set it (#23561) 2023-03-18 19:38:10 +01:00
.spectral.yaml Add spectral linter for Swagger (#20321) 2022-07-11 18:07:16 -05:00
.stylelintrc.yaml Update JS dependencies (#26025) 2023-07-21 11:34:10 +08:00
.yamllint.yaml fully replace drone with actions (#27556) (#27575) 2023-10-11 12:03:06 +00:00
BSDmakefile Fix build errors on BSD (in BSDMakefile) (#27594) (#27608) 2023-10-14 07:29:55 +00:00
build.go User/Org Feed render description as per web (#23887) 2023-04-04 04:39:47 +01:00
CHANGELOG.md Add changelog for 1.21.3 (#28569) 2023-12-22 12:10:03 +01:00
CODEOWNERS [META] Add CODEOWNERS files 2023-11-13 12:33:49 +01:00
CONTRIBUTING.md [DOCS] CONTRIBUTING 2023-11-13 12:33:47 +01:00
DCO Remove address from DCO (#22595) 2023-01-24 18:52:38 +00:00
Dockerfile [CI] Forgejo Actions based release process (squash) gitea to forgejo 2023-11-13 13:58:18 +01:00
Dockerfile.rootless [CI] Forgejo Actions based release process (squash) gitea to forgejo 2023-11-13 13:58:18 +01:00
go.mod [GITEA] Update crypto dependency 2023-12-19 15:24:20 +01:00
go.sum [GITEA] Update crypto dependency 2023-12-19 15:24:20 +01:00
LICENSE [DOCS] LICENSE: add Forgejo Authors 2023-11-13 12:33:48 +01:00
main.go [BRANDING] alias {FORGEJO,GITEA}_{CUSTOM,WORK_DIR} 2023-11-13 13:58:18 +01:00
MAINTAINERS Apply lng2020 to maintainers (#27068) 2023-09-14 12:10:12 +08:00
Makefile [SEMVER] 6.0.3+0-gitea-1.21.3 2023-12-22 11:56:45 +01:00
package-lock.json Update mermaid for 1.21 (#28571) 2023-12-22 12:10:03 +01:00
package.json Update mermaid for 1.21 (#28571) 2023-12-22 12:10:03 +01:00
playwright.config.js Update JS dependencies and eslint config (#21388) 2022-10-10 20:02:20 +08:00
poetry.lock Update JS and PY dependencies (#27501) (#27518) 2023-10-08 19:31:33 +02:00
poetry.toml Clean up pyproject.toml and package.json, fix poetry options (#25327) 2023-06-18 18:13:08 +00:00
pyproject.toml [BRANDING] cosmetic s/Gitea/Forgejo/ in logs, messages, etc. 2023-11-13 13:58:17 +01:00
README.md [BRANDING] add Forgejo logo 2023-11-13 13:58:17 +01:00
RELEASE-NOTES.md [DOCS] RELEASE-NOTES.md 2023-11-13 12:33:48 +01:00
vitest.config.js Use vitest globals (#27102) (#27311) 2023-09-27 16:10:08 +02:00
webpack.config.js [API] Forgejo API /api/forgejo/v1 2023-11-13 12:33:48 +01:00

Welcome to Forgejo

Hi there! Tired of big platforms playing monopoly? Providing Git hosting for your project, friends, company or community? Forgejo (/for'd͡ʒe.jo/ inspired by forĝejo the Esperanto word for forge) has you covered with its intuitive interface, light and easy hosting and a lot of builtin functionality.

Forgejo was created in 2022 because we think that the project should be owned by an independent community. If you second that, then Forgejo is for you! Our promise: Independent Free/Libre Software forever!

What does Forgejo offer?

If you like any of the following, Forgejo is literally meant for you:

  • Lightweight: Forgejo can easily be hosted on nearly every machine. Running on a Raspberry? Small cloud instance? No problem!
  • Project management: Besides Git hosting, Forgejo offers issues, pull requests, wikis, kanban boards and much more to coordinate with your team.
  • Publishing: Have something to share? Use releases to host your software for download, or use the package registry to publish it for docker, npm and many other package managers.
  • Customizable: Want to change your look? Change some settings? There are many config switches to make Forgejo work exactly like you want.
  • Powerful: Organizations & team permissions, CI integration, Code Search, LDAP, OAuth and much more. If you have advanced needs, Forgejo has you covered.
  • Privacy: From update checker to default settings: Forgejo is built to be privacy first for you and your crew.
  • Federation: (WIP) We are actively working to connect software forges with each other through ActivityPub, and create a collaborative network of personal instances.

Learn more

Dive into the documentation, subscribe to releases and blog post on our website, find us on the Fediverse or hop into our Matrix room if you have any questions or want to get involved.

Get involved

If you are interested in making Forgejo better, either by reporting a bug or by changing the governance, please take a look at the contribution guide.