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Gitea

Lightweight self-hosted Git service

Git Hosting & Forges ★ 57.3k stars Easy setup MIT

Gitea is a lightweight, self-hosted Git service offering repositories, issues, pull requests, and CI integration. It targets developers and teams who want a fast, easy-to-run code platform. It is deployed via Docker or a single binary.

Key features

  • Fast single-binary Git server
  • Issues, PRs and wiki
  • Built-in package registry
  • Gitea Actions CI

Pros & cons

Strengths

  • Very lightweight
  • Easy to deploy
  • Familiar GitHub-like UI

Trade-offs

  • Fewer features than GitLab
  • Governance concerns spurred a fork

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