What is Gitea?
Today we will look at what Gitea is, why it is needed and who uses this software.
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A little history
Gitea was developed on October 17, 2016 by not indifferent people who are tired of restrictions in the development of Git repositories. The participants of the autonomous Gogs service just developed Gitea because the Gogs repository was under the control of one maintainer, and this greatly limited the speed of development and data entry. The community was upset by such restrictions and developed Gitea as an offshoot of Gogs.
So what is Gitea?
Gitea - Software for hosting IT projects and joint development based on Git. it has open source code. Supports self-hosting, but also provides a free public instance.
That is, this software is an excellent solution to problems in the field of joint application development and other things.
It can be placed on all platforms.
Why and who needs Gitea?
This system is necessary for developers and, in general, is needed to organize work with Git repositories. With this software, you can deploy a service similar to GitHub and other services on your hardware (or cloud).
If you are a repository developer, then you should pay attention to Gitea. With its help, you can quickly develop the necessary repository with the company and it doesn't matter who will use which OS, because the work can be done in the cloud.
Advantages of Gitea
There are several quite serious advantages of this software. These include the following:
- Compactness - A small number of resources are consumed, but the functionality does not suffer from this and remains quite extensive.
- User-friendly interface - To understand what we mean, you need to familiarize yourself with the interface of this software.
- Integration - It is possible to connect to third-party services, for example, Discord, etc.
- Easy installation - To install, you just need to run the executable file. Deploy on the desired platform or use Docker for installation.
Conclusion
In this article, we have considered what Gitea is and why it is necessary. We also found out what advantages Gitea has and for whom it was created.