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Self-Hosting Forgejo: Community-Governed Git Hosting

Forgejo is a community-governed fork of Gitea. Same features, same efficiency, but with transparent community governance.

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What Is Forgejo?


Forgejo is a fork of Gitea, created when concerns arose about Gitea's governance direction. It's fully Gitea-compatible but governed by a community foundation.


Forgejo vs Gitea


  • Feature set: Nearly identical
  • Performance: Same (both Go-based)
  • Ecosystem: Compatible (extensions, themes work on both)
  • Governance: Forgejo is community-governed, Gitea has a company behind it

    • Why Choose Forgejo?


  • You value community governance
  • You want to support independent open source
  • Codeberg (a major Git hosting service) runs Forgejo

    • Why Choose Gitea?


  • Larger user base
  • More documentation
  • Gitea Actions CI/CD is more developed

    • Features


  • Git repositories with web UI
  • Pull requests and code review
  • Issues and project boards
  • CI/CD (Forgejo Actions, compatible with GitHub Actions)
  • Package registry
  • Wiki

    • Deployment


    1. Deploy Forgejo on TinyPod

    2. Same setup as Gitea

    3. Same resources: 1 CPU, 512 MB RAM


    The choice between Gitea and Forgejo is mostly philosophical. Both are excellent self-hosted Git platforms.