frieren

A self-hosted git server in one binary — everyone reads what you publish, only you write. Your code, on your machine, outliving every platform.

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frieren is a small alternative to GitHub for people who want their repositories to live on hardware they own. It serves two audiences at once: git clients speak the smart HTTP protocol against it (git clone, git fetch, git push), and browsers get a web UI — repository list, file trees, blobs with line numbers, commit log, diffs, branches and tags.

The access model is deliberately tiny. Guests — anyone who can reach the server — browse and clone every public repository. Seat holders sign in and see everything, private repositories included. There are exactly two seats and no sign-up: one for the owner, one spare. Pushing is the owner's alone.

It is built from fundamentals: the Go standard library and the git binary, nothing else. frieren owns HTTP, authentication, and rendering; the wire protocol and object storage are delegated to git's own upload-pack and receive-pack plumbing — the same architecture real forges use.