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It amazes me how much different my git activity changes, when I reduce the risk of unauthorized data exposure to the greater Internet.

GitHub Activity for the last year (June 2023 - June 2024) with few commits throughout the period
My Public GitHub Activity
Private Gitea Activity for the last year (June 2023 - June 2024) Showing daily activity since April 2024.
My Private/Local Gitea Activity

Since setting up a reliable local Gitea Server on my private LAN I found that I tend to use Git more than ever. I have been diving into things that I have been more cautious about, because of the risk of leaking secrets and confidential data. Even my activity on GitHub has increased because I can test a project internally before sharing it on GitHub.

I have started playing with Continuous Deployment, Ansible, Hugo and more. I can ‘safely’ work locally, without accidentally exposing private information to the greater internet. (If you are interested in my Home Lab Content, checkout my mini site for more.)

I also switched to my new computer about the same time my activity increased – April 2024 – may be related 🤷.

Aside: Time Gap – If you are curious about the gap between August 2023 to April 2024, shortly after I setup my first Gitea instance on my testing hypervisor (Proxmox VE) the host system started throwing disk errors. So, I stopped using that host. This was my first bare-metal hypervisor, I turned it off and forgot about it. Early 2024 I started playing with XCP-ng on a new host, I deployed a new instance on XCP-ng system. Then when I switched computers and setup a good upgrade/backup scripts for Gitea I started using Gitea more often.

Another interesting thing, I have more repos on Gitea (23 Repos, 5 Orgs) than GitHub (8 Repos, 1 Org).

So if you want to learn Git or start using it for more things, I recommend hosting a local Git Server.

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