mhoennigandClaude
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Hostsharing recommends assigning domains to separate domain admins rather than to the package admin, and all their service guides (Mattermost, Tomcat, Nextcloud) run the daemon as its own user. For GitTally the argument is stronger: it checks out foreign commits and executes their build scripts, so running as the package admin would undo the sandbox rationale of this step. The service user has to be named when ordering the daemon port anyway. Also records a trap found on the way: the RAM contingent is a package slice, not a per-user quota, so a dedicated user buys isolation but no extra memory — a runaway Gradle build could starve the whole webspace. The unit from `init --systemd` sets neither MemoryMax nor TasksMax today, so adding them (configurable, empty = unset) becomes part of step 17. Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
GitTally
Lightweight, declarative and highly opinionated software build system (CI/CD).
Documentation
- docs/configuration.md — configuration reference
- docs/bootstrapping.md — initializing a repository with
init - docs/deployment.md — running GitTally as a systemd service behind a reverse proxy
- docs/migration-from-legacy.md — migrating from the legacy bash script
Legacy Script
legacy/gitTally (bash) is deprecated and kept only as a behavioral reference for the rewrite.
Do not use it for new installations; see docs/migration-from-legacy.md.
Developer Setup
Source .envrc to add tools/ to your PATH, or install direnv to have this done automatically on cd:
source .envrc
Common tasks:
./gradlew build # compile and run all checks
./gradlew test # run tests
./gradlew ktlintFormat # auto-format Kotlin sources
./gradlew ktlintCheck # check formatting (also runs as part of build)
adr-status # show all architecture decisions at a glance
direnv
direnv sources .envrc automatically whenever you enter the repository and unloads it when you leave.
# Ubuntu
sudo apt install direnv
# add to ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc
eval "$(direnv hook bash)" # or: eval "$(direnv hook zsh)"
Trust the project's .envrc once per clone:
direnv allow
Tools (tools/)
| Command | Description |
|---|---|
adr-status |
List all Architecture Decision Records with their status and decision summary |
Architecture Decision Records
Major technical decisions are documented as ADRs in docs/adrs/.
adr-status # show all decisions at a glance
New ADRs follow the template at docs/adrs/0000-00-00.adr-template.md.