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which is the best option if you literally just want to make Git repositories visible on the Web but don't want pull requests and issues and so forth

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gitweb is built in but I understand it has weaknesses
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Gitea is overkill, GitLab moreso
Rysiekúr Memesson 🇺🇦
just put bare repos online? Like, literally have a HTTPS host where you put git bare repos? Via HTTPS they are read-only. You manage this via SSH or whatever without giving anyone access.

Unless you're talking about some other meaning of "visible"?
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"Visible" as in "visible using a Web browser, as Web documents"
Rysiekúr Memesson 🇺🇦
right. So you need something that actually *interprets* the data. In that case I don't think I've heard of anything simpler than Gitea.
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I've gotten several recommendations now for cgit, which is a very similar tool to the built-in (part of the Git suite) GitWeb
Josias
I recommend it as well. It's dead simple to set up. It may or may not suit your needs. https://git.josias.dev
David Bremner
Another vote for cgit for read only serving of git repos.
Elena ``of Valhalla''
I'm also using cgit, it didn't require too much effort to set up, and it tends not to require any effort for maintenance (other than the basic “keep the server updated”)

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you may also be interested in stagit which generates static pages for browsing the contents of a repo through the web:
https://codemadness.org/git/stagit/file/README.html

hosting a repo like this is simple/cheap but i'd bet it's more complex than e.g. cgit to get set up nicely

this project uses it
https://tilde.team/~kst/git/grm.tilde/file/README.html

and i'm building a static-hosted git forge with it too but my messy experiments are nothing i would recommend to pick up and use just yet
https://orbital.rodeo/~mike/20210804-git-on-static-hosting/
Iron Bug
the latest cgit drew in python crap for html conversion. it's absolutely unneeded there. I purified it from python and it works fine with plain bash. no fat, no shit.
Nelson Chu Pavlosky
I haven't actually used this, but I found another option, smithy (written in golang): https://github.com/honza/smithy

GitHub - honza/smithy: A tiny git forge written in Go

A tiny git forge written in Go. Contribute to honza/smithy development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Nelson Chu Pavlosky
stagit (a static site generator for git repos) also seems interesting: https://a3nm.net/blog/cgit_stagit.html

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