Git hosting built on open source

Codebahn runs Forgejo, community-governed free software licensed under the GPL-3.0. Your data exports in standard format, one click, any time. Easy to leave because the format is open and the upstream is free.

What "built on open source" means

Forgejo is a self-hosted Git forge maintained by a community. Its legal home is Codeberg e.V., a German non-profit. It handles repos, issues, pull requests, registries, and CI.

Codebahn maintains a fork that adds the layers between open-source project and managed product: billing, ephemeral CI provisioning, multi-tenant isolation, and defaults that prioritize safety over configuration.

The fork is not open source. The foundation is.

Synced with upstream Forgejo 15.0.9 on 22 September 2026.

Why this matters for you

You are not betting that Codebahn lasts forever. You are betting that if it doesn't, you walk away with everything in the export, in one click, the same as any ordinary day.

Your data exports in the standard Forgejo format. Repos, issues, pull requests, CI configuration. If Codebahn disappears, you stand up a Forgejo instance and import the export. That is a smaller bet than the one you are making right now, on terms you can't export and an exit you have never tested. The procedure is on Leaving; what is in place so it does not come to that is on Continuity.

Why not self-host?

You can. Forgejo on a Hetzner CX23 is a few euros a month. The Forgejo installation guide walks you through it.

For from €19/month you stop maintaining it yourself. Security patches applied promptly instead of whenever you remember. Daily encrypted backups to a separate EU region instead of same-host snapshots you hope work. Container registry, CI minutes, TLS management, email deliverability, monitoring. See the full comparison.

Your weekends, your call.

Private repos only

Every repo on Codebahn is private: no public view, no anonymous clone. Open-source projects belong on a public forge. Private and commercial work goes here.