From GitHub to Git Home: Self-Hosting Your Repositories with Gitea

Sat, 23 May 2026 13:00:00 +0000

Git was designed to be distributed. Every clone is a full copy of the history, which means no single server is special and no company holds your project hostage. Yet somewhere along the way the world decided that “git” and “GitHub” were synonyms, and a vast amount of the world’s source code now lives on infrastructure owned by a single corporation. That is convenient right up until it is not. If you have ever wanted a home for your repositories that you fully control, that runs on a Raspberry Pi or a spare VPS, and that boots in milliseconds, Gitea is the answer. This guide gets you from nothing to a running, self-hosted git forge you can push to over SSH.

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From GitHub to Git Home: Self-Hosting Your Repositories with Gitea