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Is there a GDPR-friendly way to set up (self hosted) a free, minimalist Git source code management system without registration (just for me as the admin), possibly including templates for a privacy policy?

I want to move away from Github.

Jonathan Matthews

@lukasrotermund You might be interested in this recent post from @simontatham: chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtath. If figuring out the end state described there, from scratch, doesn't sound attractive, you can get 90% of the way there with the "gitolite" tool. It's pretty simple to get running, and is what I use.

I don't believe that single user, self-hosted git has any overlap with GDPR concerns, but I'm not a lawyer.

www.chiark.greenend.org.ukGit without a forge

@jonathanmatthews @simontatham I'm more interested in logging and IP addresses. Since this is not "my" software, I need something that does not log anything, or gives me privacy help by telling me what it does log, so I can put it in my privacy policy :)

But I'll have a look at what you sent me! Thanks! :)

@lukasrotermund @jonathanmatthews @simontatham you usually can setup your webserver /forward proxy to mangle or remove the visitor's IP address. I'd think that's the only thing that matters in the case you describe; with no signups, there's no data. Unless you're going to accept patches, that might "leak" email addresses, depending on how you do it.