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Go Git Service, or more commonly known as Gogs is a GitHub alternative written in Go. A popular fork with more features is Gitea, and although it is still light-weight the installed footprint is larger.
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Pros
Pro Easy to install
The installation process is very simple, just a binary file that needs to be run in the directory. Most common advanced use-cases are well documented and easy to set up (running as a service on any OS, mailing setup, etc.)
Everything just works out of the box.
Pro Excellent performance and efficiency
The fact that it's written in Go means that it has excellent performance even with little resources (less RAM for example).
Pro Cross-platform
Gogs is written in Go, this means that Gogs can be run anywhere that Go can compile. Be it Linux, Windows or OSX.
Pro Simple installation
The installation process is very simple, just a binary file that needs to be run on the directory where the user wants to install Gogs
Pro Cross-platform compatibility
Gogs is written in Go, this means that Gogs can be run anywhere that Go can compile. Be it Linux, Windows or OSX.
Cons
Con Can't filter by a user to see all their commits in one place
Clicking a user's name shows all users' history, not just the one clicked.
Con No suitable permission control for organization
General User has read permission to list all organization,.
General User has permission to create new organization then create new repository.
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Out of Date Pros + Cons
Con Can not make pull requests between branches of forked repositories
Can not make pull requests between branches of forked repositories.
