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Git with a cup of tea! Painless self-hosted all-in-one software development service, including Git hosting, code review, team collaboration, package registry and CI/CD

161 mentions on Hacker News by 132 people: 18 stories, 143 comments · first 2016-12-27 · latest 2026-09-10

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  1. It looks like Gitea made the same fix (rm -r .git after template processing) back in February: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/commit/2176e84ab977011ff2b... PR: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/36734 So likely Gitea < 1.25.5 was…
    comment by Macha · 2026-09-10 · in Forgejo <=16.0.3 Critical RCE
  2. …code base (especially frontend) is quite out-dated, so nothing to do with Gitea. > > Source: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/6058#issuecomment-5351342357 [2026-08-20 04-25-05Z] Yes, a fear of license change, forking, and…
    comment by serious_angel · 2026-08-24 · in The next GitHub is not worth winning
  3. This is the PR that started it all: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/27455
    comment by kamikazechaser · 2026-08-02 · in Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects
  4. …container-options escape). Refs: [ https://blog.gitea.com/release-of-1.26.3-and-1.26.4/ ] [ https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/security/advisories/GHSA-f... ] [ https://hivesecurity.gitlab.io/blog/gitea-forgejo-nine-cves-... ].
    comment by the_rz1027 · 2026-07-01 · in Anonymous GitHub account mass-dropping undisclosed 0-days
  5. ▲ 3
    Gitea is 10 years old, but official repo is still hosted on GitHub
    story by notRobot · 2026-06-03 · 0 comments
  6. …to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software… – https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/blob/main/LICENSE If you don't want your software used like that, don't choose this licence. You can't…
    comment by jen729w · 2026-03-23 · in Migrating to the EU
  7. only thing i found after a relatively quick sleuth https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/4175
    comment by dijksterhuis · 2026-03-17 · in Show HN: GitClassic.com, a fast, lightweight GitHub thin client (pages <14KB)
  8. It's on the radar (as Gitea is also actively working on this - https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/35295 ), but I suspect you can not expect anything for a while: "Upstream Proposal: Repository Grouping/Subgroups in Forgejo":…
    comment by mindcrash · 2025-10-17 · in Forgejo v13.0 Is Available
  9. Here's an example off the top of my mind: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/blob/main/go.sum
    comment by homebrewer · 2025-09-16 · in Shai-Hulud malware attack: Tinycolor and over 40 NPM packages compromised
  10. There is a plan for hosting gitea on gitea: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/1029
    comment by ptman · 2025-08-18 · in FFmpeg moves to Forgejo
  11. …PR[1] to add it, but the test failures are beyond my motivation to investigate and resolve. [0] https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/33945 [1] https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/25664
    comment by scubbo · 2025-08-11 · in GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation
  12. It’s coming in gitea: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/20311 I would be willing to guess that self hosting gitea as a backup mirror is less work than doing the same for Bluesky. But, just speculating
    comment by alemanek · 2025-08-07 · in Building Bluesky comments for my blog
  13. The SAML support in https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/29403 seems like it will get merged once the MR is a little bit higher quality. EDIT (bit better source): > Gitea Enterprise is an offering of CommitGo, not the Technical Oversight…
    comment by mappu · 2025-07-23 · in Gitea Private, Fast, Reliable DevOps Platform
  14. …comment - you can use "git" without Github by hosting an instance of the open-source Gitea service. https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea
    comment by vunderba · 2025-05-18 · in Ditching Obsidian and building my own
  15. …1256 PR-like Gitea commits and 2181 Forgejo commits. And finally, their respective activity pages ( https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pulse/monthly and https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/activity/monthly ) show a similar story. I'm not…
    comment by kstrauser · 2025-05-15 · in Updated rate limits for unauthenticated requests
  16. …line. That way anyone touching the project can just add their own line on top. Done. EDIT: Example: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/blob/main/LICENSE A more complicated way to do it is to add a folder that contains the original LICENSE…
    comment by throwaway277432 · 2025-04-21 · in Getting forked by Microsoft
  17. …you can verify that yourself by going to the project and seeing that all the code is MIT licensed: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea
    comment by techknowlogick · 2025-04-02 · in Organic Maps migrates to Forgejo due to GitHub account blocked by Microsoft
  18. …over Gitea, but I can tell you Forgejo is missing everything from the 888 merged PRs in Gitea 1.23: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/releases/tag/v1.23.0-rc0 Repo license support, integrated Arch package repository, automatic issue…
    comment by mappu · 2024-12-19 · in Gitea 1.22 is the last version to allow a transparent ugprade to Forgejo
  19. This appears to be the PR: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/23851 Pretty big gap in the "packages" feature.
    comment by remram · 2024-12-19 · in Gitea 1.22 is the last version to allow a transparent ugprade to Forgejo
  20. …apparently believe that a collective copyright header is the same thing as a copyright assignment: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/27455 & https://codeberg.org/forgejo/discussions/issues/67 I disagree on that point personally, but…
    comment by vetrom · 2024-12-18 · in Gitea 1.22 is the last version to allow a transparent ugprade to Forgejo
  21. See this issue: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/1029 For years, "self-hosting" Gitea wasn't done because it was missing a bunch of useful collaboration features. Now, it looks like that gap has been closed. All of the specific…
    comment by teraflop · 2024-12-06 · in Gitlab names Bill Staples as new CEO
  22. …been merged into the paid version, but now suddenly they can't get reviews for the free version: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/24257#issuecomment-23...
    comment by SamWhited · 2024-09-09 · in Gitea blocks PR from community, charging $$ for open-source contributions
  23. …that it hasn’t been well received, it’s that I’ve been physically unable to respond to you. [0]: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/24257#issuecomment-23...
    comment by vngzs · 2024-09-09 · in Gitea blocks PR from community, charging $$ for open-source contributions
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    Gitea blocks PR from community, charging $$ for open-source contributions
    story by ironmagma · 2024-09-09 · 79 comments
  25. …\ | jq -r '.assets[] | .browser_download_url | select(endswith("linux-amd64"))' https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/releases/download/v1.15.7/gitea-1.15.7-linux-amd64 Or extracting the KUBE_CONFIG of a DigitalOcean Kubernetes cluster from T
    comment by sshine · 2024-03-21 · in DuckDB as the New jq
  26. …the visual feedback in the Pull Request is just way too useful to switch to a "proper" tool. [1] https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/25803
    comment by FrostKiwi · 2024-03-21 · in Mermaid Chart, a Markdown-like tool for creating diagrams, raises $7.5M
  27. It's a tangent, but I think it's interesting that Gitea started trying to self host in Feb 2017 ( https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/1029 ) and hasn't got there yet (based on how active the github issues/PR page are).…
    comment by JonChesterfield · 2024-02-27 · in Forgejo makes a full break from Gitea
  28. …The folder with the mirrors is then uploaded to a backup provider, in my case Borgbase [2] 1. https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea 2. https://www.borgbase.com/
    comment by smivan · 2024-02-05 · in Chris Wanstrath "defunkt" GitHub cofounder and former CEO is banned on GitHub
  29. …[3] and trying to discredit Dan Bernstein [4]. [1]: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/49269 [2]: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/17798 [3]: https://twitter.com/FiloSottile/status/1127643698676797441 [4]:…
    comment by MaKey · 2024-01-05 · in Go: What we got right, what we got wrong
  30. …designed for doing the exact same computations on the frontend too (isomorphic like NextJS). [1] https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/5937
    comment by ironmagma · 2023-12-31 · in LuaX: A Lua Dialect with JSX
  31. …performance regressions in GitHub. There's a hanging draft for it in Gitea (inb4 yes also Forgejo). https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/20311 Maybe this is the push I need to actually start using taskwarrior...…
    comment by 3np · 2023-12-14 · in Lessons from building GitHub code search [video]
  32. …the bootstrapping[1] is already done, but the import[2] from Github is causing them troubles. [1]: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/1029 [2]: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/18165
    comment by BitPirate · 2023-11-14 · in Gitea – Open-Source GitHub
  33. …them https://github.com/gogs/gogs https://gogs.io/docs/installation/install_from_binary.html#d... https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea
    comment by wutwutwat · 2023-10-22 · in My website is one binary (2022)
  34. ▲ 2
    Gitea Hosted Gitea
    story by TheBrokenRail · 2023-09-22 · 0 comments
  35. Reminds of the GitHub issue for hosting Gitea on Gitea, it's... a read to be sure: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/1029
    comment by TheBrokenRail · 2023-09-22 · in Harness launches Gitness, an open-source GitHub competitor
  36. Wow how pathetic that github is refusing to export their data: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/1029#issuecomment-1...
    comment by KirillPanov · 2023-06-23 · in About GitHub’s use of your data
  37. > You must admit that is a bit ironic. Looks like they're working on migrating to a Gitea instance: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/1029 .
    comment by n4r9 · 2023-06-23 · in About GitHub’s use of your data
  38. > The only solution is to self-host. Gitea is good. Gitea project hosts its code on GitHub: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea . You must admit that is a bit ironic. > age of massive ever-growing out of control tech monopolies that do…
    comment by mhaberl · 2023-06-23 · in About GitHub’s use of your data
  39. …) bring me to this GitHub issue, which suggests that implementing Kanban is in progress: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/14710 Personally, I think it's great that the features are there (much like you also get with GitLab), but I…
    comment by KronisLV · 2023-05-24 · in Kanboard: free and open source Kanban project management software
  40. …federation, that's what would really be a github killer and drive this ecosystem forward imho. - https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/18240 - https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/issues/59
    comment by RamblingCTO · 2023-04-07 · in Codeberg – Fast open source alternative to GitHub
  41. This has been added to gitea/forgejo https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/21696
    comment by jacooper · 2023-04-07 · in Codeberg – Fast open source alternative to GitHub
  42. …but there would need to be more details in your question. I am most familiar with gitosis. [1] - https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea [2] - https://github.com/tv42/gitosis # some Linux repos contain this as a prebuilt package. [3] -…
    comment by LinuxBender · 2023-04-01 · in Ask HN: Privacy-Conscious GitHub?
  43. ▲ 3
    Gitea is unable to migrate its main repository away from GitHub
    story by otbutz · 2023-03-22 · 0 comments
  44. They've been meaning to migrate for a while now, but have had various blockers. https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/1029
    comment by xx_ns · 2023-03-20 · in Gitea 1.19
  45. …lot of comments about "Forgejo". In short: meh. Not a big deal[2]. I'll be sticking with Gitea. 1: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/14186 2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35233168
    comment by djha-skin · 2023-03-20 · in Gitea 1.19
  46. …these merged PRs: Forgejo https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/pulls?q=&type=all&sort=... Gitea https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclose...
    comment by gempir · 2023-03-20 · in Gitea 1.19
  47. …and make PRs with other instances really feels like what Git hosting services should be doing. https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/18240
    comment by tedivm · 2023-03-02 · in Tell HN: Gitlab Premium pricing increases incoming $19 to $29
  48. …act being fine for hello-world but 100% absolutely not a replacement for a formal CI/CD system: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/13539#issuecomment-... I will concede I have not tried keeping up with their fork <…
    comment by mdaniel · 2023-03-02 · in Tell HN: Gitlab Premium pricing increases incoming $19 to $29
  49. …g.gitea.io/2022/12/feature-preview-gitea-actions/ Looks like there's still more work planned, though: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/13539 This is interesting - as I understand it gitea supports work flows from the github…
    comment by e12e · 2023-03-02 · in Tell HN: Gitlab Premium pricing increases incoming $19 to $29
  50. Looks like https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/18165 is the last missing checkbox...
    comment by aidenn0 · 2023-02-08 · in Blender moves from Phabricator to Gitea