Keeping your code repositories in-house is a good way to avoid security leaks. Jack Wallen shows you how easy it is to connect to a Gogs local repository from the Git command line.

Hosting your own code repository has many benefits, such as security and ease of use. Jack Wallen shows you how to deploy a local repository to your data center with Gogs.

The git push --set-upstream command tells a remote repository to create a new branch to support the new branch and commit history that is about to be pushed to it.

To accomplish this, he created web-git-sum. It’s a bash script that runs on git’s post-receive hook and generates only two files: a summary page and an index of the repository.