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Free forge based on Git written in Go
Not to be confused with Gitee, the commercial Git hosting platform run by OSChina.
Gitea is an open-source Git service created by Lunny Xiao, who was also a founder of its predecessor, the self-hosted Git service Gogs. Xiao invited a group of users and contributors from the Gogs community to join in the development of Gitea. While Gogs was open-source, its repository was controlled by a single maintainer, which limited community input and development speed. In response to these limitations, the Gitea developers decided to fork Gogs in November 2016, creating a community-driven development model. Gitea had its official 1.0 release in December 2016.
Forgejo fork
In October 2022, maintainers Lunny Xiao and Matti Ranta founded the company Gitea Limited with the goal of offering hosting services using specialized versions of Gitea. Its open-source counterpart maintains the MIT License. The shift away from a community ownership model received resistance from some contributors, which led to the formation of a software fork called Forgejo. Consequently, the software forge Codeberg began using Forgejo instead of Gitea.