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Updated to Gitea one dot twenty three
Lots of disk space added as well
One is compelled to say “whee-ee”
You'll agree that no ragequit is swell
There's no other git that is such a hit
Even non-git here is git
Here no repo is forgotten
Loss of code is verbotten
Welcome to the ultimate Minetest git site:
This site hosts over 11,000 git repos. Most of the repos are for Minetest. However, we host other projects here for free as well.
You'll find Minetest mods here that have disappeared elsewhere. We've also converted non-git Minetest projects to git form so that you can git clone them.
In fact, we offer git copies of most Minetest projects — both git *and* non-git — that were in the Trolltest ContentDB between Christmas Day 2021 and January 2025. Even the projects that are no longer online in the ContentDB or anywhere else.
If you'd like to search for a ContentDB project here, note that the git usernames used here are usually based on the original git usernames. The ContentDB usernames may or may not work for searches.
As a bonus, a few rare Minetest files previously hosted on MediaFire and simlar sites are included here in git form.
There is no broader Minetest git collection on this or any other plane of existence.
There are FOSS repos of other types here as well. You can store your own git repos here. It's free. Automated registration is disabled due to spammers but email the following address if you'd like an account:
gitadmin@expertmultimedia.com
Send questions or comments to the same email address.
It isn't possible for our Minetest repos to be lost due to ragequit. For example, in 2020, the migdyn repos were deleted or moved to an unknown location, but they continue to exist at:
https://git.minetest.io/migdyn
And VanessaE has retired. A towering figure in more than one respect, one of the true originators of the project. She'll be missed. VanessaE deleted many of her repos in 2021. But you can see them here at:
The code in old Minetest repos is often experimental or obsolete. So, many of these repos can't be used directly. However, the code is a useful reference for modders working on new features.
Final Minetest is being redone. Links to the new code will be added here in due course.
Search that doesn't leave you in the lurch:
Use the navbar at the top to navigate. Note: This site supports full-text search of source files.
To search source code, use this link
To search repo names, use this link
To search user names, use this link
Hold the phone, how to clone:
To clone a repo to your hard disk, use CLI commands of the following form:
git clone https://git.minetest.io/Treer/hidden_doors/
Note: You can use http instead of https. However, if you do so, a redirection warning message will be printed.
You can also download a ZIP file or TAR.GZ tarball from a repo's
web page. Look for the type of button shown below. It's a
download button:
For example, click on the sample hidden_doors link provided further up and look for the button there.
Name issues:
* The GitHub "minetest" account is called "minetest" here.
"minetest" accounts from non-GitHub sites have had upstream site identifiers added. So, for example, the "minetest" account from "gitgud" is named "minetest-gitgud" here, "minetest" from NotABug is named "minetest-notabug", etc.
* "notabug" lets usernames end with a period but "gitea" doesn't permit this. So, we've changed the username "y.st." locally to "y.st".
* "y.st" is the only username at this host which contains a period. For all other usernames, periods have been replaced with underscores.
* Similarly, at Github, repo names can contain a period but "gitea" prohibits this. So, we've changed the repo name "auth_rx.wiki" to "auth_rx_wiki".
Other issues:
1. In September 2022, the main branch in each repo that referred to the branch as “main” was renamed at least temporarily to “master”. This was done to simplify the import of other branches that had been missed previously.
2. We're not certain that the following repo is valid:
https://git.minetest.io/Illuna-Minetest/minetest_game
The repo in question produced the following warning message on import:
warning in blob 81bb16b46edb67f6614169e42a6586b4eecc74db: gitmodulesParse: could not parse gitmodules blob
3. A small number of upstream repos [9 as of September 2022] couldn't be stored in their exact original form due to containing directories whose names were literal newlines. Those repos have been modified each with a commit to rename the “\n” directories to the letter “n”.
Note: The directories in question originated largely though not exclusively with HybridDog.