A security vulnerability announced for Forgejo, which also affects Gitea and Gogs, prompted me to look into the fork history behind my self-hosted Gogs setup: Gitea split from Gogs in 2016 over project management disagreements, and Forgejo forked from Gitea in 2022 after its trademarks moved to a company. Impressed by Forgejo’s handling of the issue and only lightly invested in Gogs, I’m considering a switch. The takeaway is that project governance matters alongside features, and security announcements for the tools you rely on are worth following...
I wanted a private git server for version-controlling my plain-text financial accounts (kept with beancount), rather than pushing them to GitHub. I walk through installing Gogs — chosen over Gitea for being simpler — in Docker on an LXC container, including a storage driver fix needed to get it running, and finish with the first-run setup and pushing a repo...
