# charmbracelet/soft-serve

The mighty, self-hostable Git server for the command line🍦

Repository: https://github.com/charmbracelet/soft-serve
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/soft-serve
Language: Go
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: git, golang, ssh
Last push: 2026-08-12T20:42:49+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 97/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 97, release rhythm 96, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 1860, "days_push": 21, "days_rel": 26, "gap_med": 13, "n_releases_24m": 18}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 7202, forks 238 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:56.587235+00:00)

## What it is
Soft Serve is a self-hostable Git server that runs as a single Go binary and is managed entirely from the command line. It serves repositories over SSH, HTTP, and the Git protocol, with an SSH-accessible TUI for browsing repos, files, and commits.

## Use cases
- self-host a lightweight git server
- browse git repos from the terminal over ssh
- create git repos on demand with git push
- manage repo access with ssh public keys
- host private and public git repositories
- serve git repos with git lfs support
- print and syntax-highlight files from a repo over ssh

## When to choose
- you want a simple, single-binary self-hosted Git server without a web UI
- you prefer managing repos and access control over SSH
- you need Git LFS support on a lightweight server
- you want a terminal UI for browsing repos, files, and commits

## When to avoid
- you need a full web interface like GitHub, GitLab, or Gitea
- you need issue tracking, pull requests, or CI/CD
- you want a graphical admin dashboard

## Facets
- artifact type: service
- maturity: active
- function: http-server, auth, security, developer-tools, terminal-ui, cli
- domain: developer-tools, version-control, self-hosted
- platform: windows, cross-platform, self-hosted, cli, go
- tags: git-server, ssh, git-lfs, tui, self-hosted-git, version-control, command-line, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- charmbracelet/soft-serve (main) score 97

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:56.587235+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:39:51.770515+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/charmbracelet/soft-serve (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:56.587235+00:00, sha ac096cee5491)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.