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Federated Nexus

Forgejo

Forgejo is a free and open-source git forge. Very lightweight and performant, Forgejo is a good replacement for GitHub. We host Forgejo at at https://git.federated.nexus.

Logging in

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To log in, press the “Sign in” button on the top right corner and Select “Sign in with Federated Nexus” - it should take you to the Federated Nexus login page, where you can enter the credentials for your Federated Nexus account.

You should then be greeted by the explore page:

The Forgejo explore page, showing a list of repositories

Viewing your dashboard

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To view your dashboard, press the icon in the top left corner.

The dashboard shows you the recent activity of repositories you watch, a contribution graph, and a list of repositories you are a member of:

The Forgejo dashboard page, showing recent repository activity, a contribution graph, and a list of repositories

Next steps

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We recommend taking a look at the Forgejo User Guide for more detailed information on using your Forgejo account.

Forgejo has many useful features you can use, such as:

  • Watching repositories to get notified when the repository has any activity
  • Forking repositories
  • Issue tracking
  • An API which allows you to perform automated actions on repositories (such as commenting test results on pull requests)