Comment by SOLAR_FIELDS

Good call out. Most of the time people actually want one of the "wrapper" softwares because they want the collaboration components and they aren't old greybeards that want to ship around mailserv lists. But that use case doesn't apply here. There is probably no one to collaborate with in this use case, so barebones git is probably totally fine.

Though I'd say, if you're going through all of the effort to self host something, git or otherwise, doing the "wrapper" is probably worthwhile anyway due to the convenience if you ever do need those features. It's not that much harder to do that than host a vanilla git server.