[Question] Stay with Gitea or jump to Forgejo? (lemmy.world)

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Does anyone who’s more on the pulse of stuff than I know if I should stick with Gitea or jump to Forgejo while I can?

I understand that, for the moment at least, Forgejo should be a drop-in replacement for Gitea as they shared codebase for so long…

Anyone have experience that this is the case? What version did you make the switch on? Was it really just a binary/docker container swap on existing database or did you run into any troubles?

I’m at a crossroads where as a casual HomeLab user I don’t really care either way, but if there is a chance Gitea does something that ruins my use of it, I will regret having not switched while it was supposed to be easy. On the other hand, if Gitea remains the stronger choice and Forgejo fizzles out, I will regret leaving it behind. Help me decide? I’m on Gitea 1.21.5, the last “guaranteed” jump point now.

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[-] nis@feddit.dk 4 points 8 months ago

At home I'll use Forgejo, but at work I'll set up Gitea for my department where we are forced to work in a Windows infrastructure.

I would like to be able to use Forgejo both places.

[-] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 months ago

forced to work in a Windows infrastructure

My condolences. I hope you find some relief in the future

[-] PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Why not at work?

[-] algernon@lemmy.ml 6 points 8 months ago

Forgejo has no official Windows builds, and since it is not tested on windows at all, it's not guaranteed to work.

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