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Migrating from Gitea to Forgejo

Wherein I migrate my Gitea instance to Forgejo. The Git forge Gitea is one of the oldest services in my Homelab. I set up the first instance about ten years ago, when a budgetary problem forced me to switch my Homeserver to a Pi 3. And that wasn’t really able to run Gitlab, my previous hosting platform. So Gitea it was. Then I had another Gitlab phase after those budgetary constraints were decisively lifted. And then I returned to Gitea, because Gitlab was really, really annoying me, back in 2021. I have been quite happy with Gitea. It provides me a nice UI for my repos and a convenient place for issues logging, although I’ve never really used that feature too much. A couple of years ago, I also added a CI with Drone, but that’s about all the features I ever needed from a Git forge. ...

May 23, 2025 · 12 min · Michael