wware / gitbox

A little box full of git repositories.

Gitbox, a private mobile Github clone

This is a hardware project to assist software development. The hardware comprises:

• A Raspberry Pi model 2 for $40
• 128 GB USB stick for $28
• 8GB SD card with Raspbian Jessie for $12
• A 16x2 LCD display for showing the IP address, $10
• A backup battery circuit for graceful shutdown of the RPi
  • https://github.com/wware/rpi-shutdown
  • http://willware.blogspot.com/2016/01/graceful-shutdown-for-raspberry-pi.html
• Maybe a nice case? But I have some extra bits that it might not leave room for.

For now this will be a vanilla Git server using GitWeb as a web interface. Later I might tinker with Gitlab or Gogs.

I did some tinkering in a Docker image before moving on to the physical RPi.

docker build -t gitbox .
docker run -d -p 80:80 -v /opt/git:/opt/git --name=gitbox gitbox
docker inspect --format='{{.NetworkSettings.IPAddress}}' gitbox

It's a good idea to put an entry for "gitbox" in /etc/hosts of your dev machine.

Creating a git repo is a bit of a chore. Given a repository foo, do this.

git clone --bare foo foo.git
scp -r foo.git gitbox:/opt/git/foo.git