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    #132 this week

    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

    devops
    self-hosted
    frontend
    bitbucket
    cicd
    docker-registry-v2
    git
    git-gui
    Go
    MIT
    59.0K stars
    7.4K forks
    488 GitHub watchers
    Updated Nov 11, 2026
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    Where it stands

    Rank, growth pace and release cadence relative to everything GStars tracks.

    Ranks #3 among DevOps repositories ranked this week, and #8 over the last 30 days; #132 of 163 repositories with measured growth this week (top 81%).

    This week's +148 stars is in line with its 30-day pace of about +131 per week.

    5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 9 days ago, with 400 contributors on GitHub.

    Peaked at #19 in the weekly ranking the week of Oct 26, its best in the past year.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Gitea is a painless, self-hosted all-in-one software development platform supporting Git hosting, code review, team collaboration, package registry, and CI/CD.
    • Built in Go, Gitea supports multiple platforms and architectures, integrates with Docker, GitHub, GitLab, and supports technologies like Vue, npm, Maven, and CI/CD pipelines.
    • Strengths include ease of setup, cross-platform compatibility, active community with 50k+ stars, and MIT license; limitations may include fewer enterprise features compared to larger platforms.
    • Organizations can deploy Gitea for private Git hosting, internal code reviews, and CI/CD workflows, benefiting from its lightweight, scalable, and extensible architecture in production.
    • Ideal use cases are small to medium teams needing a fast, self-hosted Git service with integrated collaboration and CI/CD, especially where control over infrastructure and data privacy is critical.

    Should you depend on it?

    License terms, project hygiene and risks, from GitHub metadata and GStars' snapshots.

    License

    MIT

    Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.

    Community files

    • README: present
    • Contributing guide: present
    • Code of conduct: present

    Watch-outs

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    From the README

    The goal of this project is to make the easiest, fastest, and most painless way of setting up a self-hosted Git service.

    As Gitea is written in Go, it works across all the platforms and architectures that are supported by Go, including Linux, macOS, and Windows on x86, amd64, ARM and PowerPC architectures. This project has been forked from Gogs since November of 2016, but a lot has changed.

    For online demonstrations, you can visit demo.gitea.com.

    For accessing free Gitea service (with a limited number of repositories), you can visit gitea.com.

    To quickly deploy your own dedicated Gitea instance on Gitea Cloud, you can start a free trial at cloud.gitea.com.

    You can find comprehensive documentation on our official documentation website.

    It includes installation, administration, usage, development, contributing guides, and more to help you get started and explore all features effectively.

    If you have any suggestions or would like to contribute to it, you can visit the documentation repository

    The build target is split into two sub-targets:

    Internet connectivity is required to download the go and npm modules. When building from the official source tarballs which include pre-built frontend files, the frontend target will not be triggered, making it possible to build without Node.js.

    Excerpt from the go-gitea/gitea README on GitHub (MIT license). © its authors.Read the full README on GitHub

    Daily snapshots

    Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots

    Aug 18: +20Aug 27: +14Aug 28: +13Aug 31: +39Sep 1: +35Sep 2: +11Oct 2: +11Oct 6: +26Oct 7: +16Oct 8: +17Oct 9: +16Oct 10: +29Oct 11: +29Oct 12: +9Oct 13: +5Oct 21: +17Oct 22: +25Oct 23: +23Oct 24: +24Oct 25: +16Oct 26: +7Nov 6: +32Nov 7: +15Nov 8: +16Nov 9: +21Nov 10: +18Nov 11: +25

    +1,573 stars over 86 days across 35 snapshot days; best day +39 on Aug 31.

    Forks

    7.4K+374

    Open issues

    2.2K-379

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