Gitea.md (1341B)
1 # Gitea 2 3 DATE: 2026/02/16 4 5 ## Information 6 7 Gitea is a git hosting solution written in Go, licensed under the MIT license. Gitea is a hard fork of Gogs created in 2016. Gitea has commercial offerings in the form of Gitea Cloud and Gitea Enterprise. 8 9 **Gitea Cloud:** Managed version of Gitea, no additional functionality supported. 10 11 **Gitea Enterprise:** Includes code security scanning, IP allowlists, and other enterprise functionality. 12 13 ## Features (self-hosted CE) 14 15 - Git hosting with http(s) / ssh support 16 - Issue tracking 17 - Pull requests 18 - Gitea actions 19 - ... 20 21 ## Concerns 22 23 The main concern is Gitea has corporate backing and the way they went about it was questionable (taking the domain, trademarks, and brand recognition, along with community contributions that *feel like* they were given under false pretenses). Despite this, they have remained passable in their tech choices. 24 25 Around the time of incorporation Forgejo was created. The Forgejo domains are in the custody of Codeberg, a non-profit from Germany that offers free git hosting for free software projects. They were a soft-fork of Gitea until 2024 where they began to diverge. Forgejo is licensed under the GPLv3. 26 27 In my opinion, it is preferable to use Forgejo over Gitea due to their licensing and governance structure. 28 29 See [Forgejo](Forgejo.md) for more details.