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I've tried GitLab before and wasn't too impressed. Gogs looks interesting, it looks like it might just be a single binary file like fossil which would be nice, all I had to do on windows is add the location of the single binary to the path and on linux I just had to move it to my bin folder and wham it works. I've been really happy with fossil so far so not looking to switch anytime soon, gogs certainly looks interesting

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I'd definitely recommend GitLab for teams and workplaces... But not so much an individual. Though, the CI stuff being so damn simple makes for some niceness.

Gogs/Gitea are great for individuals as a single drop in file, but it is a hosted service.

If you're willing to drop git and use fossil, it comes with the benefit of pretty much everything any hosted git solution has, as well as not needing to run a service. It has ticketing and wiki inbuilt. The only thing a hosted solution might supply is CI/CD.

If you're going well with fossil, with it's ability to integrate with git repos, I don't think you're going to find anything else that feels as good.

Yes I believe Gogs is a single binary and fairly easy to deploy as a result. Gitlab is nice, but is a lot to setup and maintain unless you like that sort of thing, as I do.

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