Why “Gitea” is being discussed
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So what about my self-hosted repos in gitea that use SHA-1? Will they all become unusable once I can't avoid updating to git-3 anymore?
by zombot · Oct 2, 2026
GitHub can f..k you and you are forced to love it. or live with it...
by anonymous_frust · Oct 2, 2026 · 6 points
Gitea forking from Gogs was somewhat justified but I’ve always felt like Forgejo forking from Gitea was a huge overreaction to nothing
by thiht · Oct 1, 2026
there's nothing wrong with it, just more work then I'd like. I'd have to setup a CI system or build my own to handle the dependency management of the jobs and, as I said, time b…
by unsnap_biceps · Oct 1, 2026
Location: Hanford, CA (Pacific Time, US Citizen) Remote: Yes (Preferred) Willing to relocate: Yes (SF Bay Area, San Diego, PNW, or West Coast tech hubs) Technologies: Python (Fa…
by jdelpilar · Oct 1, 2026
That's quite annoying - "security fixes" - but no information if your installation is affected or not? (Eg: in a module that's disabled)? Makes work harder for sys admins - litt…
by e12e · Oct 1, 2026
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Gitea is a forge software package for hosting software development version control using Git as well as other collaborative features like bug tracking, code review, continuous integration, kanban boards, tickets, and wikis. It supports self-hosting and also provides a free public first-party instance. It is a fork of Gogs and is written in Go and TypeScript. Gitea can be hosted on all platforms supported by Go including FreeBSD, Linux, macOS, OpenBSD, and Windows. The project is funded on Open Collective. Read more on Wikipedia