Comment by anthomtb

Thank you. I was trying to figure out what "forge" meant here.

When I think "forge", I think a tool to turn a raw material into finished product. Ergo, the blacksmith tool that turns iron into a horseshoe.

The software analogy would be turning text source code into a runable binary. Ergo, a compiler or an interpreter.

Github and SourceForge move source code from one place to another. To overextend the analogy, they are more like a combination shop/delivery service. Source code is moved but never altered or transformed.

Long story short, this crusty C/C++ dev thinks forge is a really weird term for a self-hosted, sugar-crusted Git server.