Gitea is light and fast so I highly recommend it. If you are worried about it being a for profit company, then use the fork, but if they haven’t done any harm, I’d said give them a shot.
this post was submitted on 27 Jul 2023
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Are there any feature differences between gitea and forgejo?
I can't figure out any differences other than the ownership structure.
Forgejo is about to introduce support for federation, but is also planning to upstream those changes to GitTea down the line
Federation would be super cool. Lemmy has really sold me on it.
I assume that by now you've made a decision, so if I may I'd like to chip in and ask what's the benefit of self-hosting a Git instance, like the ones mentioned, over using existing free services like GitHub or Codeberg to host your code? What do you gain by hosting this yourself, apart from privacy and security?
I'd say the main benefit gained is sovereignty and a sense of place. This is not for personal use, but rather for a computer enthusiast association that I'm part of, so having our own git to integrate with the rest of our services makes sense. Throw on branding and link it to our SSO.
if you have a hard time choosing between Gitea and Forgejo I recommend picking Gitea for now, as they haven't done anything bad just yet, but if they do Forgejo supports migration from Gitea.
iirc there isn't an official way of migrating the other way so if Forgejo fucks up you may end up out of luck
What do you mean by "gitea turned into a for profit"?
I really like gitea, set it up at my last job and it was easy to work with and used very little resources.