Gogs is a painless, easy-to-install self-hosted Git service with low system requirements, making it suitable for a variety of hardware from Raspberry Pi to cloud-based servers. It's designed to be a simple and stable platform for hosting Git repositories that's both extensible and easy to integrate with other services.
Gogs: A painless self-hosted Git service
Gogs is a painless self-hosted Git service.

Key Features
- Easy Installation: Gogs can be installed from binary, source, or packages, and can also be run using Docker or Vagrant.
- Cross-platform: Gogs supports all platforms that Go can compile for, such as Windows, macOS, Linux, and ARM.
- Lightweight: Designed with minimal resource requirements, Gogs can run on low-spec hardware like Raspberry Pi.
- Open Source: The entire codebase is available under the MIT License, ensuring transparency and community involvement.
- User-Friendly Interface: Offers a dashboard, user profile management, and an activity timeline for efficient project tracking.
- Multifaceted Repository Management: Supports issues, pull requests, wikis, protected branches, and webhooks for comprehensive repository oversight.
- Diverse Authentication Options: Allows authentication via SMTP, LDAP, reverse proxy setups as well as GitHub.com OAuth with two-factor authentication support.
- Collaboration Features: Provides tools for team collaboration such as organization and repository management along with team access controls.
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Suggested Developer Use Cases
- Integrating Gogs within a continuous integration pipeline for automated testing and deployment workflows.
- Leveraging Gogs as a version control backend for code collaboration in low-code development platforms.
- Serving as a lightweight alternative to other Git services for clients who prefer a self-hosted solution that's easy to manage and scale.
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