Gogs vs Azure Repos: What are the differences?

What is Gogs? A self-hosted Git service written in Go. The goal of this project is to make the easiest, fastest and most painless way to set up a self-hosted Git service. With Go, this can be done in independent binary distribution across ALL platforms that Go supports, including Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows.

What is Azure Repos? Get unlimited, cloud-hosted Git repositories for your project. It is a set of version control tools that you can use to manage your code. Get unlimited private Git repository hosting and support across all scales, from a single hobby project for TFVC to the world's largest repository.

Gogs and Azure Repos can be categorized as "Code Collaboration & Version Control" tools.

Some of the features offered by Gogs are:

• Activity timeline
• SSH/HTTP(S) protocol support
• SMTP/LDAP/reverse proxy authentication support

On the other hand, Azure Repos provides the following key features:

• Free private Git repositories, pull requests and code search
• Support for all Git clients
• Web hooks and API integration

Gogs is an open source tool with 33.9K GitHub stars and 3.95K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Gogs's open source repository on GitHub.

Sodep, GameDuell, and Write.as are some of the popular companies that use Gogs, whereas Azure Repos is used by ELCA Vietnam, Visorian GmbH, and *. Gogs has a broader approval, being mentioned in *20 company stacks & 112 developers stacks; compared to Azure Repos, which is listed in 3 company stacks and 3 developer stacks.