diff --git a/docs/maintainers/vcpkg_from_github.md b/docs/maintainers/vcpkg_from_github.md
index 52ef5cbd99d..16a1d29f8a1 100644
--- a/docs/maintainers/vcpkg_from_github.md
+++ b/docs/maintainers/vcpkg_from_github.md
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ The latest version of this document lives in the [vcpkg repo](https://github.com
 
 Download and extract a project from GitHub. Enables support for `install --head`.
 
+This also works with Gitea by specifying the Gitea server with the `GITHUB_HOST` option.
+
 ## Usage:
 ```cmake
 vcpkg_from_github(
diff --git a/scripts/cmake/vcpkg_from_github.cmake b/scripts/cmake/vcpkg_from_github.cmake
index f587b20ae56..56cfcbf6a97 100644
--- a/scripts/cmake/vcpkg_from_github.cmake
+++ b/scripts/cmake/vcpkg_from_github.cmake
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
 
 Download and extract a project from GitHub. Enables support for `install --head`.
 
+This also works with Gitea by specifying the Gitea server with the `GITHUB_HOST` option.
+
 ## Usage:
 ```cmake
 vcpkg_from_github(