Developers are gaining another option for Git code-hosting with Gitea, a lightweight, self-hosted platform.
Offered as open source under an MIT license, Gitea aims to be the easiest, fastest, and most painless way of setting up a self-hosted Git service, the project’s GitHub repo states. A community-managed fork of Gogs, for hosting a Git service , Gitea was written in Go and can be compiled for Windows, Linux, and MacOS. It will run on Intel, AMD, PowerPC, and ARM processors.
Gitea offers a solution for private repos, Rémy Boulanouar, a maintainer of Gitea, said. «For my own usage, I have dozens of project stored in Git in my personal laptop. I don’t want to share them with everybody and don’t want to pay to have private repositories of GitHub,» he said.
Developers are gaining another option for Git code-hosting with Gitea, a lightweight, self-hosted platform. 
