Soft Serve Self-Hosted Git Server with SSH TUI

Soft Serve is a self-hostable Git server by Charmbracelet that provides a beautiful terminal UI accessible over SSH. It supports cloning over SSH, HTTP, and Git protocol, Git LFS, access control with SSH keys, and on-demand repository creation.

Installation

Use the upstream install or setup path that matches your environment:

• brew install charmbracelet/tap/soft-serve
• go install github.com/charmbracelet/soft-serve/cmd/soft@latest
• Make sure git is installed, then run soft serve. That’s it.
• git clone ssh://soft/dotfiles

Requirements and caveats from upstream:

• A Docker image is also available.
• Now you can access to repos that require read-write access.

Basic usage or getting-started notes:

• Just run ssh git.charm.sh for an example. You can also try some of the following commands:

• Soft Serve is a single binary called soft. You can get it from a package

• manager:

• Source: https://github.com/charmbracelet/soft-serve

• Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/charmbracelet/soft-serve/HEAD/README.md

Source

• Agent Skill Exchange