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Gogs – Go Git Service

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Resurfaced independently across 6 calendar years, with breakout response in 2 of them.

submissions
9
submitters
9
observed span
2014–2021
peak thread · 183 comments
341 pts
latest 20+ return · 2018-11-10
101 pts

Submission timeline

2007–2026

One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.

First comments on top threads

HN comment order

> How to use downloads? > 1. Extract the archive. > 2. cd into the directory just created. > 3. Execute ./gogs web and you’re done. Can't beat the simplicity of running Go applications. It's funny because running a compiled binary is so incredibly basic to computing, and yet 90% of the time installing a new shiny toy in a server involves dealing with 342525 dependencies, half of which broke because god knows what dependency wasn't targeting the right version…

Mahn·341-point thread·

https://gitea.io/en-us/ is a fork with some additional functionality and more open to outside contribution[1] [1] https://blog.gitea.io/2016/12/welcome-to-gitea/

frfl·101-point thread·

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=gogs#!/story/forever/0/gogs

dang·1-point thread·

The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.

Breakout years
2

100+ points or 50+ comments

Total points
459

reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking

Total comments
233

reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking

Every submission

DateTitle as submittedByPointsComments
2014-08-30Gogs: A self-hosted Git service written in Gotombenner11
2015-03-04Gogs: Go Git Service – A Self-Hosted Git Service Written in Goerkose10
2016-03-28Gogs – Go Git ServiceFirst breakout · Best threadof341183
2017-12-22Gogs: A painless self-hosted Git servicel5870uoo9y30
2018-02-05Gogs: A painless self-hosted Git servicerwx------30
2018-04-10Gogs – A painless self-hosted Git servicehamid91430
2018-06-05Gogs: a lightweight self-hosted Git repo serverofrzeta20
2018-11-10Gogs – A simple, stable and extensible self-hosted Git serviceHall induction · Latest 20+ point returnjcamou10149
2021-01-19Gogs A painless self-hosted Git serviceharporoeder40