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Forgejo vs cgit: catalog facts
Forgejo	cgit
Free The open-source software is available without a license fee. Hosting, hardware and…	Free Free and open source under the GPLv2.
Windows, macOS, Linux, Web, Self-hosted	Web, Self-hosted
One small binary with SQLite is enough to host a real forge Community-governed under a copyleft licence, with federation in progress	Written in C with built-in HTML caching Commit feeds, tag archives and side-by-side diffs
Smaller ecosystem of integrations than GitLab Federation is still in development rather than finished	Read-only browsing with no issues, pull requests or user accounts Must be built and configured on your own web server
Self-hosted, Web application	Self-hosted
Open source	Open source
License: GPL-3.0	License: GPL-2.0
Not stated if an account is needed	No account needed
Not stated if it works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 22, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026

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