# Hearthforge ![](public/assets/favicon.svg) ![](preview.png) A self-hosted git forge designed to host your own repositories while allowing others to interact with them via issues and patch proposals. The frontend works without JavaScript — JS is only required for WebAuthn, with a graceful fallback to password-only auth. ## Features - **Repository browser** — integrated file tree, single-file editing, blob view, commit log, markdown rendering, media previews - **Issues & patches** — create, comment, react with emoji; submit git `.patch` files for review and merge them directly from the UI - **Labels** — per-repo labels with custom colors; optionally allow users to label their own issues and patches - **Templates** — issue and patch templates per repository - **Releases** — create releases with source archives (zip/tar.gz), uploaded assets, and optional tag creation - **SSH push/pull** — built-in SSH server, no external git daemon needed - **Auth** — password login or passkeys (WebAuthn/FIDO2) - **Commit signing** — patches merged and files edited through the UI are automatically signed; verification badges shown in the commit log - **Registration control** — open registration, disabled, or queue mode where the admin manually approves new accounts ## Stack - [Bun](https://bun.sh) — runtime and package manager - [ElysiaJS](https://elysiajs.com) — HTTP framework - [SQLite](https://www.sqlite.org) — single-file database via [Kysely](https://kysely.dev) - [@kitajs/html](https://github.com/kitajs/html) — server-side JSX (no client-side framework) - [Shiki](https://shiki.style) — syntax highlighting ## Running ```bash bun install bun run db:init # creates database and admin account bun run start # http://localhost:3000, SSH on port 2222 ``` Default admin credentials: `admin` / `changeme` Set the `ADMIN_PASSWORD` environment variable **before** running `db:init` to choose your own. ### Docker / Podman A `Containerfile` and `compose.yml` are provided: ```bash docker compose up # or podman compose up ``` The container stores all persistent data (repos, database, avatars, releases, SSH host key) under `/data` — mount a volume there to keep it across restarts. ### Manual repository import Existing repositories can be copied into the `data/repos` directory. Non-bare repos are automatically converted to bare repos on startup (uncommitted changes and worktrees are discarded). Pushing directly to the on-disk repositories (bypassing the bundled HTTP/SSH endpoints) generally works as well. ### SSH access Add your public key under **Settings → SSH keys**, then: ``` git clone ssh://git@localhost:2222/REPO_NAME ``` Pushing is supported for the admin. ### Configuration All settings are environment variables: | Variable | Default | Description | |------------------------------|----------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------| | `PORT` | `3000` | HTTP port | | `SSH_PORT` | `2222` | SSH port | | `DATA_DIR` | `./data` | Repos, database, uploads | | `ADMIN_PASSWORD` | `changeme` | Initial admin password (only used by `db:init`) | | `OWNER_DISPLAY_NAME` | `Admin` | Display name for the owner | | `BASE_URL` | `http://localhost:$PORT` | Used in clone URLs and links | | `REGISTRATION_TYPE` | `enabled` | `enabled`, `disabled`, or `queue` (admin approval) | | `REGISTER_QUESTION` | _(empty)_ | Question shown on the registration form in `queue` mode | | `MAX_UPLOAD_BYTES` | `10485760` | Max request body size (10 MB) | | `MAX_USER_UPLOAD_BYTES` | `2097152` | Max upload size for non-admin users (2 MB) | | `INLINE_MAX_BYTES` | `524288` | Max file size rendered inline in the code view (512 KB) | | `SSH_DISABLED` | `0` | Set to `1` to disable the embedded SSH server | | `SCANNED_REPO_PRIVATE` | `1` | Set to `0` to make auto-scanned repos public by default | | `TRUSTED_PROXY` | `0` | Trust `X-Forwarded-For` headers \*\* | | `RATE_LIMIT_DISABLED` | `0` | Set to `1` to disable rate limiting | | `HIGHLIGHT_WORKERS` | `4` | Syntax highlighting worker threads \* | | `COMMITTER_NAME` | `$OWNER_DISPLAY_NAME` | Git committer name for merges and UI edits | | `COMMITTER_EMAIL` | `$OWNER_DISPLAY_NAME@` | Git committer email for merges and UI edits | | `SSH_HOST_KEY_PATH` | `$DATA_DIR/ssh_host_key` | Path to the SSH host key (auto-generated if missing) | | `EXTRA_ALLOWED_SIGNERS_PATH` | _(empty)_ | Additional git allowed-signers file for commit verification | | `MAX_TITLE_BYTES` | `500` | Max length for titles (issues, patches, releases) | | `MAX_TEXT_BODY_BYTES` | `100000` | Max length for text bodies (descriptions, comments, notes) | | `MAX_USERNAME_BYTES` | `64` | Max username length at registration | | `MAX_PASSWORD_BYTES` | `1024` | Max password length | | `CI_DOCKER_SOCKET` | _(auto-detected)_ | Path to Docker/Podman socket | | `CI_MAX_HISTORY` | `50` | Max pipeline runs to keep per repo | | `CI_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT` | `3600` | Default step timeout in seconds | | `CI_MAX_CONCURRENT` | `2` | Advisory max concurrent runs | \* Each highlighting worker loads its own copy of the language grammars and uses ~200 MB of memory. Increase with care. \*\* Set `TRUSTED_PROXY=1` only when Hearthforge is behind a reverse proxy that strips any incoming `X-Forwarded-For` from clients. Caddy and Traefik do this by default; nginx requires `proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $remote_addr;` (rather than the common `$proxy_add_x_forwarded_for`, which appends to a client-supplied value). Setting `TRUSTED_PROXY=1` in front of a proxy that does not strip means rate limits and any audit logging are spoofable per request. ### Reverse proxy deployment Hearthforge does not terminate TLS itself. For any production deployment, run it behind an HTTPS-terminating reverse proxy (Caddy, nginx, Traefik, …) and set: ``` BASE_URL=https://your-forge.example.com ``` A `BASE_URL` with the `https://` scheme is what activates HTTPS hardening: - Session and preference cookies are emitted with `Secure`, so the browser will only send them over HTTPS. - Every response includes `Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains`. - The CSRF middleware compares the request `Origin` against `BASE_URL` (full origin, scheme + host + port), not the `Host` header. ## CI/CD Pipelines Hearthforge includes a built-in CI/CD system that runs pipelines in Docker or Podman containers, configured via a `.hearthforge-ci.toml` file at the root of your repository. The Pipelines tab contains a small tutorial and an example file. ## Development ```bash bun run dev # watch mode with auto-restart bun run lint # lint with Biome bun run format # format with Biome bun run test # E2E and unit tests (uses Playwright; don't call bun test directly) ``` ## Roadmap - Use [git-bug](https://github.com/git-bug/git-bug) for issue tracking instead of custom implementation - Remove test retry logic once Bun no longer randomly stalls