Gitea vs Forgejo
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Lukeeno_ · 2023-12-01 14:26

Hello everyone.

I have seen some posts about how the situation is with Gitea and
Forgejo. However, most of the discussions are about a year old. I
wanted to ask for your opinion on these two a year after the fork.

How different are they? Do either have must-have features? Does it
make sense to use Forgejo?

Thanks in advance!

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vivekkhera · 2023-12-01 15:09

I just now learned of this project and went down the rabbit hole of
reading about it. I’m just gonna stick with Gitea. It solves my needs
to host some small personal projects and keep a local mirror of my
GitHub projects.

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root_switch · 2023-12-01 15:30

Can you probably a brief summary of what your read? lol thanks.

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vivekkhera · 2023-12-01 15:43

The gist of what I read was the new project will be so much better at
being open source, magic, and unicorns. Kinda turned me off the
project. I didn’t even get into the technical reasons because of it.

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ExtensionCricket6501 · 2023-12-01 18:56

Security wise, there was a recent incident in which forgejo notified
gitea about some vulnerabilities but apparently the gitea team stopped
responding leading to the forgejo team implementing the fix
themselves.

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Lukeeno_ · 2023-12-01 20:43

I wonder if Forgejo is able to keep up with Gitea team in terms of
features. I really like their idea of FOSS and also the fact that the
company is in Europe. Would you say that Forgejo is future-proof? I
already tried both of them. They are pretty much similar. However,
Forgejo has some links inside the app still pointing to Gitea and
their documentation is not so great. It lacks search for example, so I
use Gitea docs for it as it is compatible

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blind_guardian23 · 2023-12-02 00:09

as with every fork: future will tell.

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Vogete · 2023-12-02 07:33

Forgejo is trying to be the Gitea that Gitea promised it would be. So
far I think they are basically the same, but time will tell where
Gitea is headed and when forgejo will detach itself completely (and if
they can keep up).