I’ve been using a Synology Diskstation for a while as a Network Attached Storage box for sharing music and photos and as a TimeMachine server but I’ve always known that it can do a lot more and I wanted a private git server so I googled and found these useful pages:

I won’t repeat their instructions because they’re quite clear (if a little long). Once that was done, adding a new repository was pretty simple:

> login to diskstation
> mkdir -p /volume1/git/test
> cd /volume1/git/test
> git init --bare
Initialized empty Git repository in /volume1/git/test/

And then I could use it from my home machine in the usual way

> git clone ssh://diskstation/volume1/git/test

Woohoo!