easy to use, open source, can be hosted on any platform, ditributed source code management, multiple developers can clone code, change it and commit it from different machines, can have your self-hosted git repository.

We have been using gitea for several years and have found it to be an essential part of our workflow for hosting git repositories. Gitea has quite a few features and is under active development bringing new functionality.

The main thing that makes gitea great is the ability to host git server locally onto our own machine.