Welcome to Forgejo

Hi there! Tired of big platforms playing monopoly? Providing Git hosting for your project, friends, company or community? Forgejo (/for'd͡ʒe.jo/ inspired by forĝejo – the Esperanto word for forge) has you covered with its intuitive interface, light and easy hosting and a lot of builtin functionality.

Forgejo was created in 2022 because we think that the project should be owned by an independent community. If you second that, then Forgejo is for you! Our promise: Independent Free/Libre Software forever!

What does Forgejo offer?

If you like any of the following, Forgejo is literally meant for you:

• Lightweight: Forgejo can easily be hosted on nearly every machine. Running on a Raspberry? Small cloud instance? No problem!
• Project management: Besides Git hosting, Forgejo offers issues, pull requests, wikis, kanban boards and much more to coordinate with your team.
• Publishing: Have something to share? Use releases to host your software for download, or use the package registry to publish it for docker, npm and many other package managers.
• Customizable: Want to change your look? Change some settings? There are many config switches to make Forgejo work exactly like you want.
• Powerful: Organizations & team permissions, CI integration, Code Search, LDAP, OAuth and much more. If you have advanced needs, Forgejo has you covered.
• Privacy: From update checker to default settings: Forgejo is built to be privacy first for you and your crew.
• Federation: (WIP) We are actively working to connect software forges with each other through ActivityPub, and create a collaborative network of personal instances.

What does this fork offer over vanilla Forgejo?

Features are now tracked by Pull Requests, see those here.

Learn more about Forgejo

Dive into the documentation, subscribe to releases and blog post on our website, find us on the Fediverse or hop into our Matrix room if you have any questions or want to get involved.

License

Forgejo is distributed under the terms of the GPL version 3.0 or any later version.

The agreement for this license was documented in June 2023 and implemented during the development of Forgejo v9.0. All Forgejo versions before v9.0 are distributed under the MIT license.

Get involved

If you are interested in making Forgejo better, either by reporting a bug or by changing the governance, please take a look at the contribution guide.

For developers

Consider the below an appendix to the valuable official Forgejo Contributor Guide.

For any development work, it's recommended to use the devcontainer.

Building

Build a single image for multiple architectures:

1. Setup: (do this once)

   docker buildx create --name mybuilder --use
   docker buildx inspect --bootstrap
   docker run --privileged --rm tonistiigi/binfmt --install all
   

2. Build:

   docker buildx build --platform linux/amd64,linux/arm64 -t user/repo:tag --push .
   

   Replace the tag. You can add more architectures, if you wish.

For non-Docker builds, use the official instructions.

Live reload

Live reload make it easy to view changes.

TAGS='sqlite sqlite_unlock_notify' make watch

It's still recommended to restart whenever it's convenient, or making a bigger change.

Merge

Merging changes from vanilla.

Make sure you checked out the branch to merge to.

1. Add the upstream repository, if you haven't already:

   git remote add upstream https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo.git
   

2. Fetch changes: (note: --no-tags is necessary)

   git fetch --no-tags upstream
   

3. Merge the changes into the fork:

   git merge upstream/$BRANCH
   

Tag a release

git tag $TAG
git push origin tag $TAG