This project holds a lightweigth git server backed by NGINX and Alpine Linux. It is meant to be used by tests and CI/CD systems which needs a simple and ephemeral easy to use git server on their pipelines.

You can quickly start a ephemeral git server using:

docker run -d -p 8080:80 --name gitserver ghcr.io/jrangelramos/gitserver:latest

Or if you prefer you can clone and build:

docker build -t gitserver .

Also you may specify a volume to store the repositories:

mkdir repository
docker run -d -p 8080:80 --name gitserver \
  -v $(pwd)/repository:/var/www/git gitserver

The image has a utility git-repo you can use to create and delete repositories. The below example creates a myrepo test repository

docker exec gitserver git-repo create myrepo

And then you can clone and add content as below

git clone https://localhost:8080/myrepo.git
cd myrepo
echo "# My Repo" > README.md
git add README.md
git commit -m "initial commit"
git push

You can use the same git-repo utility as below

docker exec gitserver git-repo delete myrepo