Difference between Github, Gitlab, Forgejo ?
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As far as I know, neither Forgejo nor Gogs offer a hosted version, but Gitea does.
Forgejo hosted version is https://codeberg.org/ which is my code forge of choice. I also have a self hosted private forgejo mirror of my public forgejo repos.
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gittea is also a company now, forgejo is open and free, trully free
other than codeberg disroot has been running forgejo too
I wouldn't want to use anything but forgejo -
Truly free… yet in its fork of Gitea it is copying more Microsoft GitHub features like Action YAML spaghetti instead of offering an improvement. Instead of being a better offering than Microsoft, they are cloning even more features where it is even more of a hard sell IMO by not offering anything new in the experience.
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Even Codeberg is not running Forgejo Actions, which is saying something (it's super janky, many things just don't work)
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Could you please elaborate on why one should use Codeberg for private repos if one isn't a dev?
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The difference with a small group of devs writing code and offering it free and corporate thugs treating coders like sponges to produce code is the lack of resources can be understood and forgiven.
Take a project like brave-nightly (browser fork of glugle-elechrom) there are 3-5-8 new releases a day, 8-6 Pacific US time, when they go home on Fri. the next release is Monday afternoon, the "free" coders usually begin work Friday night and end Monday at dawn!Sure, corp.XYZ sends them an offer one day and buys their work and even offers them incentives to work for them, then it all goes down hill!
It ends up being as nasty racist and ethnocentric as kernel.org.com - us state dept fed and controlled
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I'm using gitea to host my code and store issues
I'm combining this with jenkins for CI/CD
push commit in gitea -> jenkins autostarts build/deploy -> commit status (build/deploy failed/ok) visible in gitea
All selfhosted with portainer and docker images on a hetzner server in finland but you can easily do it on a home-server toopretty happy with this setup - I might have a look at forgejo iso gitea as it's more open source and I wasn't aware of it when I chose gitea a year ago
then again I'm pretty happy with my setup now
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There is no difference in core of those services, all of them are visual interfaces for file versioning software called git. You can easily use git without any of these services. If you're starting to explore those technologies I personally recommend getting used to git and ssh. You can read more here on how to use git and ssh https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-on-the-Server-Getting-Git-on-a-Server
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- Github was initially written in ruby.
- The difference is memory usage, complexity of depoyment, compatibility with github features, maintenence and community support.
- Self hosting depends on various factors like usage preferences, number of users, business requirements, budget, hosting machine processing power, and amount of time you want to spend for maintenence and learning the platform.
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Forgejo hosted version is https://codeberg.org/ which is my code forge of choice
Same here and I'm happy with that
i've heard that they're quite hostile to piracy stuff , but it's also easy to self-host
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Also, there is Jujutsu which is an alternative frontend to git
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Hardly. It has shackled itself to Git’s internal format. There are more innovative VCSs than it.
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It is a fool’s errand to try to chase Microsoft like this—folks will demand compatibility with all their new Copilot-enhanced CI. Present something better please—this would entice users to leave.
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tbh do we even have a standard for an open CI/CD specification format?
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I don’t think so, but of any project they are in a position to actually propose it, implement it, & have folks actually use it & provide feedback
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Because you might need more specific development features, which codeberg doesn't offer but forgjo might.
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I wasn't aware, but with private I was also more referring to private use instead of work. Bad from my part.
