When comparing Gogs vs Codegiant, the Slant community recommends Gogs for most people. In the question“What are the best cloud storage services for developers?” Gogs is ranked 5th while Codegiant is ranked 8th.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Self-hosted
Pro Very light
Gogs is very light and has very low minimal requirements.
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 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 Open Source
Distributed under the MIT license.
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.
Pro Collaboration
Also provides access control to repositories.
Pro User friendly
The user interface is very simple and intuitive.
Pro Documentation tool
Create knowledge bases, API documentation, status pages, product roadmaps, etc.
Pro Import repositories
Easily import repositories from Github, Bitbucket, hosted Git servers, or SVN.
Cons
Con Only one maintainer
The project is driven by only one maintainer. The development will stop if he for some reason stops supporting the project.
Con Can not make pull requests between branches of forked repositories
Con No third party provider support
Con Can't filter by a user to see all their commits in one place
I want to see a single user's entire history, but clicking a user's name only shows all users' history, not just the one I clicked.
Con Supports only git
Gogs supports only the Git management system.
