From 7afd1be81bd0220e49367ea52488e2b674a91656 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Adam French <adam.a.french@outlook.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2026 14:40:38 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add Gitea entrypoint to generate app.ini from template on
 startup

Since app.ini is gitignored, the container needs to create it at
runtime. The entrypoint copies the template on first start, then
Gitea's env var overrides handle secrets.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 docker-compose.yml  |  2 ++
 gitea/entrypoint.sh | 10 ++++++++++
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+)
 create mode 100755 gitea/entrypoint.sh

diff --git a/docker-compose.yml b/docker-compose.yml
index 21702fa..2060866 100644
--- a/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/docker-compose.yml
@@ -152,6 +152,7 @@ services:
     gitea:
         image: docker.gitea.com/gitea:1.25.4-rootless
         container_name: "${GITEA_HOST}"
+        entrypoint: ["/usr/bin/dumb-init", "--", "/etc/gitea/entrypoint.sh"]
         networks:
             - app-network
         environment:
@@ -169,6 +170,7 @@ services:
         volumes:
             - ./gitea/data:/var/lib/gitea
             - ./gitea/config:/etc/gitea
+            - ./gitea/entrypoint.sh:/etc/gitea/entrypoint.sh:ro
             - /etc/timezone:/etc/timezone:ro
             - /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
         ports:
diff --git a/gitea/entrypoint.sh b/gitea/entrypoint.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..a6b23e9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gitea/entrypoint.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
+# Generate app.ini from template if it doesn't already exist
+if [ ! -f /etc/gitea/app.ini ]; then
+    cp /etc/gitea/app.ini.template /etc/gitea/app.ini
+    echo "Generated app.ini from template"
+fi
+
+exec /usr/local/bin/docker-entrypoint.sh "$@"