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One scenario where DataLad shines is managing datasets that are larger than what a single Git repository can deal with. The combination of git-annex’s capabilities to separate Git hosting from data hosting in extremely flexible ways with DataLad’s approach to orchestrating collections of nested repositories as a joint “mono repo” is the foundation for that. One example of such a large dataset is the WU-Minn HCP1200 Data, a collection of brain imaging data, acquired from more than a thousand individual participants by the Human Connectome Project (HCP)....

This article is part three of a series on self-hosting Forgejo-aneksajo. If you have not read part one, and part two already, check them out. In many ways, this article is a direct continuation. If you are self-hosting a Forgejo instance already, it can make a lot of sense to also operate a runner for its actions. Forgejo’ actions will feel very familiar to anyone who has used Github’s actions. That being said, the Forgejo documentation clearly states that “they are not and will never be identical”....

In a previous article, I described my first steps with Forgejo-aneksajo, and deploying it on my Raspberry Pi. This got me so excited that I started looking into deploying it on more machines. However, I quickly realized that the Docker-based approach I had used originally was not going to yield a setup that I would see myself wanting to maintain for an extended period of time. I knew I wanted something that I could completely apt install from Debian, that is maintained there as a whole, and not pieced together from only loosely connected components....

If we are being honest, hosting DataLad datasets is not the most straightforward thing in the world. Sure, through the power of git-annex, and with the help of a range of DataLad extension packages they can be put pretty much anywhere. But the fact that it is possible does not imply simplicity. There used to be a time when GitLab supported git-annex repositories directly. But with the arrival of Git LFS it got removed....