How does this compare to GitLab?
Depends on what you need. Gitea has no CI like Gitlab. Besides that it is a lot less resource hungry.
Gogs + Drone pairs very well :)
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#22How do I pronounce it when introducing it to co-workers, Git-tea or Gityea?
As a native German speaker: git is not spoken with English pronunciation, so Gitea, also without English pronunciation.
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#23Just started trying out Gogs. How come Gitea felt the need to fork it?
At some point the to-become Gitea developers felt that there were too few (or too slow) pull requests merged into Gogs. So they forked the project.
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#24For those curious, I'm a sysadmin, and I used Gitea to deploy a Git server for a very small project with just 8 users.
It was a lot simpler than setting up a full blown Gitlab instance. It is just one binary to get running and that's it.
The 8 users are instantly familiar with the interface because of its similarity to GitHub.
We even have other users who are not contributors read the source through Gitea interface, rather than cloning the repos and reading locally.
It's a pleasant experience for small scale needs.
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#25It's hosted on Github... How ironic.
It's not a public service, it's self-hosted.
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#26How do I pronounce it when introducing it to co-workers, Git-tea or Gityea?
Perhaps its like gitty, rhyming with giddy?
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#27What's the value add of this over GitLab?
Gitea is incredibly fast.
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#28Was trying to figure out why it looked almost identical to Gogs, until I read it was a fork.
So, what does this give me over using the main Gogs? I see it is managed differently, but what features does it offer that are not in Gogs?
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#29I've been using Gogs for a team of 40 people for over two years. This is the second time I've heard about Gitea, and I know it is a popular fork of Gogs. Can anyone sell me on why it's better than Gogs and why I should switch?
"Never change a running system", right? Stay with Gogs, it's not worth the hassle. Here are some differences Gitea users colleced https://github.com/go-gitea/website/issues/40 but many of them were implemented in Gogs as well since then. We're using Gogs at work and didn't see a need to change.
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#30I would like to see a full-fledged docker installer something to the effect of the discourse installer that I can put on something like digital ocean or my own machine, handles https in an opinionated way (let's encrypt), and integrates with popular email services like sendgrid or mailgun (with generous free tiers).