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gitea 1.12.4 is released; incremental progress

gitea 1.12.4 is released, with bug fixes.

I'm running on Docker with the :latest tag, which is a development version. If you like me wanted to downgrade from 1.13-dev to 1.12.4, you'd run into Panic: unrecognized repo unit type: 8, issue 10849. The database has an enum for repo type, and 1.13 will add Kanban boards, so it's not database compatible with the previous 1.12 release.

Still trying to get my Gitea backups fully automated. I should be able to mount a temp directory onto the host with Docker Compose, and then drop a Gitea database dump there before running my nightly Restic backups. I've been doing this by hand every night, so it gets a little easier each time, but still there are a few fiddly bits that I don't have sorted out.

Incremental progress gives me something to write about every night.

bringing up gitea

Gitea is "Git with a cup of tea", a self-hosted Git repository that's very reminiscent of Github. It has repos, issues, all of the familiar stuff you'd expect from a first glance.

Install instructions for Gitea running under Docker are straightforward. The one tweak I added was that because I'm running Tailscale on this system (a Pi 4 with SSD) that I am binding the external address of the container to a Tailscale address, e.g.

- "100.108.39.122:13000:3000"

instead of

- "3000:3000"

This ensures for the moment that I have to connect via the VPN, and that I can connect via the VPN, and it means also that I have access to this private Gitea from my phone without any extra fuss.

The next challenge looks like backups, since if I'm going to commit anything to this device that I want to keep indefinitely, I'll want to save it or sync it somewhere offsite. But first I think I need to use it for a while to get my tally board more green.