You might need to run a seed node locally to experiment or for development purposes. Here's how you can get set up.
Install rad binary from radicle-link repo. You need it to create identities for yourself, and the projects you'll be creating.
All your data would live in a monorepo (root), so designate a folder for it and then set:
$ export RAD_HOME=/path/to/folder
Then (replace values between < > with your own):
$ rad profile create
please enter your passphrase: (leave empty)
profile id: <profile-id>
peer id: <peer-id>
$ rad profile ssh add
please enter your passphrase: (press enter)
added key for profile id `<profile-id>`
$ rad identities person create new --payload '{"name": "<username>"}'
{"urn":"<urn>","payload":{"https://radicle.xyz/link/identities/person/v1":{"name":"<username>"}}}
$ rad identities local set --urn <ur>
set default identity to `<urn>`
# your git project should be at /path/to/working-dir/<project-name>/
$ rad identities project create existing --path /path/to/working-dir --payload '{"name": "<project-name>", "default_branch": "master"}'
{"urn":"<project-urn>","payload":{"https://radicle.xyz/link/identities/project/v1":{"name":"<project-name>","description":null,"default_branch":"master"}}}
Now create another env variable pointing to the profile you created in first step:
$ ls $RAD_HOME
<profile-id>/ active_profile
$ export LOCAL_ROOT=$RAD_HOME/<profile-id>/
All set.
You can now run org-node with:
$ target/debug/radicle-org-node --subgraph https://api.thegraph.com/subgraphs/name/radicle-dev/radicle-orgs --rpc-url wss://eth-rinkeby.alchemyapi.io/v2/<token> --root $LOCAL_ROOT --identity $LOCAL_ROOT/keys/librad.key --identity-passphrase ''
For a fully working git-server you'd need to also compile pre-receive and post-receive binaries and copy them into:
$ cp target/debug/{pre,post}-receive $LOCAL_ROOT/git/hooks/
These binaries are responsible for authentication which is through GPG keys, make sure you have one and:
$ gpg --list-keys --keyid-format=long
pub rsa3072/<gpg-pub> 2020-10-10 [SC] [expires: 2023-10-10]
...
Finally you can run:
$ target/debug/radicle-git-server --root $LOCAL_ROOT --git-receive-pack --authorized-keys <gpg-pub>
Which will accept signed pushes (using git push --signed) from you and reject all else. To simplify your workflow you can add your key locally to your project as well using rad-auth-keys:
$ gpg --armor --export <gpg-pub> | rad-auth-keys add
If you have trouble with gpg and git you can also run:
$ GIT_TRACE=1 git ...
To determine where the problem lies, e.g. a silent issue I was encountering was not having permission to access secring.gpg:
$ sudo chown user:user ~/.gnupg/secring.gpg
Similar to git-server but with less parameters:
$ target/debug/radicle-http-api --root $LOCAL_ROOT