Self-Hosting Forgejo on Windows Server Hyper-V Step-by-Step
A complete walkthrough for running Forgejo on Debian 13 inside a Windows Server Hyper-V VM, with Docker Compose, Let’s Encrypt TLS, GitHub repo mirroring, and automated backups to a Windows network share.
Your Repository Is Just a Database
If you’ve ever stared at a git tutorial and thought “why does this have to be so complicated?” — you’re not alone. Most git documentation is written by developers, for developers. It assumes you think…
Branches Are Just Database Copies You Can Merge Back
You’ve just finished your first commit and you’re feeling good. Then someone says “create a branch” and the confusion starts. Developer tutorials talk about branches like they’re some abstract computer science concept. They’re not. A…
Merging Is Like Synchronizing Two Databases
You’ve created a branch. You’ve made changes. Now you need to bring those changes back into main. In the DBA world, this is a problem you’ve already solved a hundred times — you just called…
Pull, Push, Fetch — It’s Just Backup and Restore Over a Network
So far, everything we’ve done has been local. Your repository lives on your machine, your branches are on your machine, your commits are on your machine. That’s fine for solo work, but the real power…
Stash Is Just a Temp Table for Your Changes
You’re halfway through modifying a stored procedure when your phone rings. Production is down. You need to switch to main and fix something immediately. But you can’t switch branches with uncommitted changes — or if…