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Why overly complex? What do you mean?
Gitea is alright. It's a very well working git server.
Someone probably wanted the 3d preview and maybe it wasn't difficult. You could say integrating "gitea pages" would be a high priority but that doesn't mean that there can be side quests along the way. You can probably read the PR if you want to know why it's included
It seems designed for like teams of people. They both have like admin interfaces, which I can't ever imagine for my use case.
I'm sure I could get it running, I just dislike using tools that are significantly more complex than I need.
you could try something like cgit, that is the simplest you can get with git frontends I think
Interesting, though this seems to only be a UI, not a server
You don’t need a specific server for bare-bones git server. Just an ssh server is sufficient
I do want it at least clonable over https
Sourcehut is really the only step between just using an ssh server and something like forgejo that I know of.
There's soft serve but it doesn't have a UI