Guide: selfhosted git onion

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git was designed to be used in a decentralized context, that is why it suited to be used through tor. This guide does not replace or provide guidelines on the safe usage of tor and only focuses on the work with git.

Notes:

• 1st: git-daemon+tor general usecase scenario.
• 2nd: gentoo specific: overlay, teamwork+alone.
• 3rd: server specific: adding webinterface, if needed

Installation

USE flags

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USE flags for dev-vcs/git Stupid content tracker: distributed VCS designed for speed and efficiency

blksha1	Use the new optimized SHA1 implementation
cgi	Install gitweb too
curl	Support fetching and pushing (requires webdav too) over http:// and https:// protocols
cvs	Enable CVS (Concurrent Versions System) integration
doc	Add extra documentation (API, Javadoc, etc). It is recommended to enable per package instead of globally
gpg	Pull in gnupg for signing -- without gnupg, attempts at signing will fail at runtime!
highlight	GitWeb support for app-text/highlight
iconv	Enable support for the iconv character set conversion library
keyring	Enable support for freedesktop.org Secret Service API password store
mediawiki	Support pulling and pushing from MediaWiki
nls	Add Native Language Support (using gettext - GNU locale utilities)
pcre	Add support for Perl Compatible Regular Expressions
perforce	Add support for Perforce version control system (requires manual installation of Perforce client)
perl	Add optional support/bindings for the Perl language
safe-directory	Respect the safe.directory setting
selinux	!!internal use only!! Security Enhanced Linux support, this must be set by the selinux profile or breakage will occur
subversion	Include git-svn for dev-vcs/subversion support
test	Enable dependencies and/or preparations necessary to run tests (usually controlled by FEATURES=test but can be toggled independently)
tk	Include the 'gitk' and 'git gui' tools
webdav	Adds support for push'ing to HTTP/HTTPS repositories via DAV
xinetd	Add support for the xinetd super-server

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Emerge

Install net-misc/tor and dev-vcs/git:

root #emerge --ask net-misc/tor

root #emerge --ask dev-vcs/git

Configuration

Services

OpenRC

To start:

root #rc-service tor start

root #rc-service git-daemon start

To start the services on system boot, add it to the default runlevel:

root #rc-update add tor default

root #rc-update add git-daemon default

Systemd

To start:

root #systemctl start tor.service

root #systemctl start git-daemon.service

To start the services on system boot:

root #systemctl enable tor.service

root #systemctl enable git-daemon.service

Working with

Configuration

Configure your git-daemon to

Advice

• For optimal usage, the machine with the git-daemon should have an uptime close to 24/7

See also

• git
• tor
• Overlay/Local_overlay