Forgejo vs Gitea

[Araxeus]

Is there a difference between them?

If i want to use this project to create a backup of my github, does it matter if I do it on forgejo or gitea? are all features supported on both of them?

Im asking because the readme mainly mention gitea

[arunavo4]

@Araxeus I have not used Forgejo but many of the users here use it with Forgejo and there is no difference really.

[mauvehed]

@Araxeus I recently just switched from Gitea to Forgejo. I blogged about it here

Some of my reasoning and what I learned about the two are:

Gitea started as a community project, a fork of Gogs, built by people who wanted a lightweight, self-hosted Git forge. Then Gitea Ltd was formed, and the governance shifted. The community that built the thing had less say in where it was going. Sound familiar?

Forgejo forked from Gitea in late 2022, backed by Codeberg and committed to staying community-governed. It's not a dramatic philosophical difference in the software itself. The interfaces are nearly identical. The APIs are compatible. But governance matters. I'd rather build on a project where the community can't be overruled by a board meeting.

Forgejo is where the development energy is going. Forgejo is what powers Codeberg, which is quickly becoming the alternative central hub to GitHub. Federation support (your Git forge talking to other forges, like email servers talk to each other) is being built in Forgejo, not Gitea.

So far, many tools (like Gitea-Mirror) work without any issue on Forgejo. The one MAJOR thing to be aware of (and I learned the hard way and documented in my blog) is that after a certain version release, their DBs are not compatible and you have to do a clean start with Forgejo.

[arunavo4]

So you are saying we cannot like do a clean migration from Gitea to Forgejo after a certain version?