I turned my NAS into a private Git server, and it made more sense than I expected

Running Gitea on a Synology NAS as a private Git server provides better version control and access management for homelab infrastructure than Synology's built-in Git server. The author explains why they chose Gitea over Synology's native option (mainly for access control — avoiding SSH access to the NAS), and how using Git for tracking Docker configs, infrastructure changes, and documentation has made managing a self-hosted stack much easier. Gitea effectively serves as a private changelog for the entire homelab setup.