Gitea
More info
- Creator
- Lunny Xiao (+ community)
- Founded
- Type
- Git forge (self-hosted)
- License
- MIT
- Source
- github.com/go-gitea/gitea
- Website
- gitea.com
A lightweight self-hosted Git forge in a single binary — GitHub's whole workflow in a can you run yourself.
Started in 2016 as a fork of Gogs, driven by Lunny Xiao and a volunteer community that wanted faster development than the original offered. Written in Go and shipped as a single executable, which makes it a favourite on home servers and in small organisations that want pull requests, issues and CI without paying or handing over their code.
In 2022 a company formed around the project, which upset part of the community who feared a commercial takeover. The answer was yet another fork, Forgejo, carried on by Codeberg. Free software forking itself is a tradition.