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date: "2016-11-08T16:00:00+02:00"
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# What is Gitea?
Gitea is a painless self-hosted Git service. It is similar to GitHub, Bitbucket, and GitLab.
Gitea is a fork of [Gogs](http://gogs.io). See the [Gitea Announcement](https://blog.gitea.io/2016/12/welcome-to-gitea/)
blog post to read about the justification for a fork.
## Purpose
The goal of this project is to provide the easiest, fastest, and most painless way of setting
up a self-hosted Git service.
With Go, this can be done platform-independently across
**all platforms** which Go supports, including Linux, macOS, and Windows,
on x86, amd64, ARM and PowerPC architectures.
You can try it out using [the online demo](https://try.gitea.io/).
## Features
- User Dashboard
- Context switcher (organization or current user)
- Activity timeline
- Commits
- Issues
- Pull requests
- Repository creation
- Searchable repository list
- List of organizations
- A list of mirror repositories
- Issues dashboard
- Context switcher (organization or current user)
- Filter by
- Open
- Closed
- Your repositories
- Assigned issues
- Your issues
- Repository
- Sort by
- Oldest
- Last updated
- Number of comments
- Pull request dashboard
- Same as issue dashboard
- Repository types
- Mirror
- Normal
- Migrated
- Notifications (email and web)
- Read
- Unread
- Pin
- Explore page
- Users
- Repos
- Organizations
- Search
- Custom templates
- Override public files (logo, css, etc)
- CSRF and XSS protection
- HTTPS support
- Set allowed upload sizes and types
- Logging
- Configuration
- Databases
- MySQL (>=5.7)
- PostgreSQL (>=10)
- SQLite3
- MSSQL (>=2008R2 SP3)
- TiDB (MySQL protocol)
- Configuration file
- [app.ini](https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/blob/main/custom/conf/app.example.ini)
- Admin panel
- Statistics
- Actions
- Delete inactive accounts
- Delete cached repository archives
- Delete repositories records which are missing their files
- Run garbage collection on repositories
- Rewrite SSH keys
- Resync hooks
- Recreate repositories which are missing
- Server status
- Uptime
- Memory
- Current # of goroutines
- And more
- User management
- Search
- Sort
- Last login
- Authentication source
- Maximum repositories
- Disable account
- Admin permissions
- Permission to create Git Hooks
- Permission to create organizations
- Permission to import repositories
- Organization management
- People
- Teams
- Avatar
- Hooks
- Repository management
- See all repository information and manage repositories
- Authentication sources
- OAuth
- PAM
- LDAP
- SMTP
- Configuration viewer
- Everything in config file
- System notices
- When something unexpected happens
- Monitoring
- Current processes
- Cron jobs
- Update mirrors
- Repository health check
- Check repository statistics
- Clean up old archives
- Environment variables
- Command line options
- Multi-language support ([21 languages](https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/tree/main/options/locale))
- [Mermaid](https://mermaidjs.github.io/) Diagram support
- Mail service
- Notifications
- Registration confirmation
- Password reset
- Reverse proxy support
- Includes subpaths
- Users
- Profile
- Name
- Username
- Email
- Website
- Join date
- Followers and following
- Organizations
- Repositories
- Activity
- Starred repositories
- Settings
- Same as profile and more below
- Keep email private
- Avatar
- Gravatar
- Libravatar
- Custom
- Password
- Multiple email addresses
- SSH Keys
- Connected applications
- Two factor authentication
- Linked OAuth2 sources
- Delete account
- Repositories
- Clone with SSH/HTTP/HTTPS
- Git LFS
- Watch, Star, Fork
- View watchers, stars, and forks
- Code
- Branch browser
- Web based file upload and creation
- Clone urls
- Download
- ZIP
- TAR.GZ
- Web based editor
- Markdown editor
- Plain text editor
- Syntax highlighting
- Diff preview
- Preview
- Choose where to commit to
- View file history
- Delete file
- View raw
- Issues
- Issue templates
- Milestones
- Labels
- Assign issues
- Track time
- Reactions
- Filter
- Open
- Closed
- Assigned person
- Created by you
- Mentioning you
- Sort
- Oldest
- Last updated
- Number of comments
- Search
- Comments
- Attachments
- Pull requests
- Same features as issues
- Commits
- Commit graph
- Commits by branch
- Search
- Search in all branches
- View diff
- View SHA
- View author
- Browse files in commit
- Releases
- Attachments
- Title
- Content
- Delete
- Mark as pre-release
- Choose branch
- Wiki
- Import
- Markdown editor
- Settings
- Options
- Name
- Description
- Private/Public
- Website
- Wiki
- Enabled/disabled
- Internal/external
- Issues
- Enabled/disabled
- Internal/external
- External supports url rewriting for better integration
- Enable/disable pull requests
- Transfer repository
- Delete wiki
- Delete repository
- Collaboration
- Read/write/admin
- Branches
- Default branch
- Branch protection
- Webhooks
- Git Hooks
- Deploy keys
- Package Registries
- Composer
- Conan
- Container
- Generic
- Helm
- Maven
- NPM
- Nuget
- PyPI
- RubyGems
## System Requirements
- A Raspberry Pi 3 is powerful enough to run Gitea for small workloads.
- 2 CPU cores and 1GB RAM is typically sufficient for small teams/projects.
- Gitea should be run with a dedicated non-root system account on UNIX-type systems.
- Note: Gitea manages the `~/.ssh/authorized_keys` file. Running Gitea as a regular user could break that user's ability to log in.
- [Git](https://git-scm.com/) version 2.0.0 or later is required.
- [Git Large File Storage](https://git-lfs.github.com/) will be available if enabled and if your Git version is >= 2.1.2
- Git commit-graph rendering will be enabled automatically if your Git version is >= 2.18
## Browser Support
- Last 2 versions of Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Edge
- Firefox ESR
## Components
* Web server framework: [Chi](http://github.com/go-chi/chi)
* ORM: [XORM](https://xorm.io)
* UI frameworks:
* [jQuery](https://jquery.com)
* [Fomantic UI](https://fomantic-ui.com)
* [Vue2](https://vuejs.org)
* and various components (see package.json)
* Editors:
* [CodeMirror](https://codemirror.net)
* [EasyMDE](https://github.com/Ionaru/easy-markdown-editor)
* [Monaco Editor](https://microsoft.github.io/monaco-editor)
* Database drivers:
* [github.com/go-sql-driver/mysql](https://github.com/go-sql-driver/mysql)
* [github.com/lib/pq](https://github.com/lib/pq)
* [github.com/mattn/go-sqlite3](https://github.com/mattn/go-sqlite3)
* [github.com/denisenkom/go-mssqldb](https://github.com/denisenkom/go-mssqldb)
## Software and Service Support
- [Drone](https://github.com/drone/drone) (CI)