20 best alternatives to Gogs as of 2025

GitLab

Top Pro

Free and open source

GitLab is a free and open source project licensed under MIT. Source code for Enterprise Edition can be found here and Community Edition here. See More

Top Con

Not lightweight

GitLab is demanding, Gitea is a much more lightweight solution which uses less CPU and memory. See More

Top Pro

At feature parity with GitHub

Gitlab is very close to Github in use and feel, written in Ruby on Rails, open source and hosted on Github as well as on GitLab.com See More

Top Con

The upgrade process fails more often than not

Even for minor versions such as 9.2.0 to 9.3.0. Sometimes the upgrade failure is silent and only seen when logging in first time after update and an http 502 error is given. See More

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Regular updates

GitLab is being constantly worked on and has a new release every month on the 22nd. Updating is also very easy through a single apt-get command. See More

Top Con

Not all features are free

GitLab's Service Desk features and some more are only available in GitLab EE. See More

Top Pro

Has wikis and pages

Wiki and pages support out of the box. See More

Top Con

Kind of slow

Top Pro

Supports pull requests

Has pull request (AKA, merge request) support. See More

Top Con

LDAP lacking

importing groups from ldap is only available in EE (Entreprise Edition) not in CE(Community Edition) See More

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Easy to install with the packages

With the packages available here, GitLab can be installed in two minutes. See More

Top Con

Requires at least 1GB of RAM

The default installation is meant for already many users and recommends 2GB of RAM. 1GB is possible but results in some HTTP 500 errors. On a Raspberry Pi 2 it runs fine most of the time, though it eats 75% of the RAM. Another option is to reduce unicorn['worker_processes'] in gitlab.rb. See More

Top Pro

Support for protected branches

A protected master branch means that no code can be merged to master without passing a code review by an authorised developer. With GitLab this comes out of the box. See More

Top Con

Bad code review possibilities

No precommit reviews. See More

Top Pro

Good web UI

GitLab's UI is clean and intuitive. Each view is designed to not fill the screen with useless information. It displays the activity in a feed-type way in the most prominent part of the view. On top of that, there's a toolbar with buttons which can filter this feed by pushes, merge events or comments. On the left, there's a menu that displays all the links that take you to the different views. For example, a file directory which displays all the files in that repo, a commit view which displays all the commits in cronological order, a network and a graph view that display important information graphically etc... All these details make GitLab's UI extremely intuitive and easy to use, no view is overflown with information and every view displays only the most useful and crucial information needed at that time. See More

Top Con

Security risks

Read GitLab provides remedies for slew of potential risks and GitLab Critical Security Release. See More

Top Pro

Issue tracking support

Has issue tracking out of the box. Creating tickets, commenting on issues, closing issues etc... It's all there out of the box. See More

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Integrates fully with LDAP

The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol is an application protocol for accessing and maintaining distributed directory information services over an Internet Protocol (IP) network. GitLab EE adds additional functionality over CE such as support for multiple LDAP servers and group sync. See More

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Comes with integrated CI/CD solution

GitLab CI makes it easy to set up CI and deployment for projects in GitLab. It supports parallel testing, multiple platforms, Docker containers and streaming build logs. See More

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Permissions and roles are supported

It has private/public repositories, roles for users (master, developer, reporter, guest). All of these can be set from the user interface. Same permissions set for the UI work for the SSH as well. See More

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Supports Approvers/Reviewers of Pull/Merge requests

Since 7.12 you can define a minimum number of approvers for merge requests. See More

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"Snippets" support

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Scalable

A single instance can handle up to 40,000 users (requires a server with 64 core CPU and 64 GB of RAM) and it can run on multiple application servers to grow beyond that. See More

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Integrates with other systems by webhooks

Integrates out of the box with services like Bugzilla, Pushbullet, Microsoft Team Notification and many more - one can also add own webhooks to integrate with own services. See More

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Manages large files and binaries with integrated Git Annex

Git Annex enables Git to manage large files (esp binaries) without checking them into Git. See More

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Can provide a Docker registry

The default docker.io registry is the docker hub but you can also login to other docker registries. And GitLab provides one for all Repos that make use of this feature. See More

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Most GitLab EE features become part of GitLab CE after time

EE is the commercial Enterprise Edition, CE is the free and OpenScource Community Edition. Features such as Cycle Analytics were first a part of the EE and are now also available in CE. See More

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Integration with third party applications

GitLab integrates with multiple third-party services to allow external issue trackers and external authentication. GitLab can integrate with many third-party apps to allow external issue tracking and authentication. It can also be integrated with several services, such as: Slack Campfire Flowdock Hipchat Gemnasium Pivotal Tracker See More

Top Pro

Very feature rich RESTful-API

GitLab exposes a REST API that allows automation possible, like PR bots. See More

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Allows Timetracking with Cycle-Analytics

Very useful project management feature that allows you to know how long it takes to go from the idea to production. See More

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Bitbucket

Top Pro

Integrated issue tracking system

BitBucket comes with an integrated issue/tickets management system. See More

Top Con

Private repositories are free for only 5 users

Private repositories are free for teams with 5 members or less. If a team is larger, then BitBucket charges for each additional team member. See More

Top Pro

Free unlimited private repositories for small teams

Bitbucket offers unlimited private repositories for free, as long as the number of members in a team is not larger than 5. In other words, it does not charge for each number of private repository, instead it charges by the number of team members. See More

Top Con

Proprietary

Top Pro

Native application for both Mac and Windows

Atlassian, the company behind BitBucket is also behind SourceTree, a free application for Windows and Mac wich works as a client for both Git and Mercurial and can be connected to BitBucket and/or other code hosting services. See More

Top Con

Not as stable as github

Users have experienced several half a day downtimes, almost every month. True, github is down once in a while, but when GitHub is down complaints breaks loose on Twitter, TechCrunch, and other major media outlets. For the past 5 years github has been down only three times, and two of these times they were attacked by major adversaries. See More

Top Pro

Multiple authentication methods

BitBucket supports Twitter, Facebook, OpenID, Google and even GitHub authentication. See More

Top Con

Requires registration of a "universal atlassian account"

Not a big con for some, but annoying to others. See More

Top Pro

JIRA integration

JIRA, the widely used project and issue tracker is developed by Atlassian, the same team that's behind BitBucket. When the two are integrated, JIRA automatically updates issues when a new commit is made in the BitBucket repo. See More

Top Pro

Allows importing existing repositories

BitBucket has a feature which allows users to import an existing repository that has been hosted elsewhere. The process is very simple, either a service is selected from a dropdown menu and then a repo can be chosen and the URL for a repository can be added in the specified field. Once that's done, the repository is now uploade into BitBucket and can be edited, forked and compared to other repos hosted there. See More

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Supports hosting static websites

BitBucket supports uploading and hosting static HTML pages for it's users. See More

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Unlimited contributors for private repositories for students/educators

Atlassian offers student licenses for both students and educators for Atlassian products that will be used in a classroom setting for education. This includes BitBucket, which means that students and teachers can have unlimited private repositories with and unlimited number of contributors. See More

Top Pro

Backed by a trustable company that has proved it's worth

BitBucket is developed and maintained by Atlassian, which is not an unknown venture, especially for developers. Atlassian has a great number of other products used by million of users worldwide, including JIRA, HipChat, Confluence and Stash. See More

Top Pro

Easy Trello integration

You can link BitBucket with your Trello board easily. See More

Top Pro

Excellent tutorials

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RhodeCode

Top Pro

High security

It's open source and it can be installed on your own machine, which gives high security and isolated environment for the codes. Whole application installation is super easy and independent from the Linux distribution. See More

Top Con

Hard to maintain and upgrade

The documentation is not very clear and it's hard to troubleshoot if there is a failure. See More

Top Pro

Supports 3 major version control systems

RhodeCode supports Mercurial, Git and Subversion in a unified way that allows you to do code-reviews and other stuff on each of them. See More

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Centralized user management

User management is centralized around administrators which can give granular permissions to individual users or user groups/. These permissions can be related to allowing contributions, editing, or simply giving read-only access to users. See More

Top Pro

Powerful and flexible code review

Code reviews can be done via Pull Requests, or simply commit-by-commit. There are voting rules, random reviewers pools, and smart comment invalidation logic. Pull requests are also versioned so it's easy to review partial changes after the author has updated his code. When you create a Pull-request you can add set of reviewers. They all have to vote and approve the PR. There's some flexibility on how the voting is accepted, it can be majority wins, or all-agree. Good practice is to add BOT accounts like jenkins, that also will vote on the review, based on for example tests run, and can forbid a merge because of a negative vote. In addition users can leave special type of comments that will also prevent merges, aka TODO notes. Once TODOs are resolved a Pull Request can be merged. See More

Top Pro

Free and Open Source

RhodeCode CE (Community Edition ) is free and open source. Enterprise Edition (EE) adds premium support, corporate authentication. and tool integrations on top of the RhodeCode CE. See More

Top Pro

Integrates fully with LDAP/AD and others

RhodeCode has auth plugins, now supported include: LDAP, LDAP with user groups, TOKEN, Container auth, PAM See More

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Online editing with preview

Files can be added, modified and deleted from the web interface, including adding directories, and uploading files. See More

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Best in class permission system

RhodeCode have the most advanced Permission system on the market, allowing things like permission inheritance, permission delegation. All comes in a format that doesn't get hard to manage at scale. See More

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Header authentication plugin allows auth delegation to 3rd party systems

The builtin header auth can delegate authentication to other existing systems for further validation chain. See More

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Gitea

Top Pro

Light-weight

Easy to install and setup. Can run on a VPS with 1 core CPU and 256MB RAM. See More

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Open source and maintained by community

Unlike Gogs, which is maintained primarily by its creator. See More

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Intuitive interface

Easy to navigate around and feels very natural in general. See More

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Non-memory consuming

Just like Gogs, but with new features and fixed bugs. Unlike GitLab which is enormous. See More

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Wiki and issues

Like GitHub, a wiki and issues (bugtracking) can be added to a repository. See More

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Fast pace of development

New features, constantly updated. See More

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Like Gogs but with faster bug fixes

If you love Gogs but were frustrated with the long wait for bugs to be fixed, this is for you. See More

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Most common platforms

Versions available for Linux, Mac and Windows. This is possible because Gitea is developed in the Go language which makes it compact and fast too. Only one executable is needed. See More

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Easy install with MariaDB back-end

No problems getting to work with MariaDB. See More

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Simple to install/written in GO

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Package Registry

Supports NuGet, npm, Cargo, Composer, Maven, RubyGems etc. To work with the NuGet package registry, you can use command-line interface tools as well as NuGet features in various IDEs like Visual Studio. See More

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Runs perfect on a Raspberry Pi 3

Thanks to its light-weight and simple integration. See More

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Customizable Templates

All templates can be overridden. See More

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Focus only on key features

And if you want extra features, you can use web hooks. See More

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Platforms:Windows, Linux, Mac, Docker

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GitHub

Top Pro

Large community

GitHub is the largest code host on the planet with over 21.4 million hosted repositories and many users. It's unarguably the largest VCS used by developers worldwide and as such, it has a vibrant community that follows it resulting in many guides and tutorials for new users. Even experienced developers can always find an answer to any question they may have. See More

Top Con

Rule of thumb: 1GB per repository, 100MB per file

For most repositories this is acceptable, but for already large repositories with a long history, this may be a limiting factor. See More

Top Pro

Nice and usable UI

GitHub's UI is clean and intuitive. Each view is designed to not fill the screen with useless information. For example, the repository view displays only the most crucial data about that repo - on the top it displays the number of commits, branches, releases and contributors. When clicked, each of them will take the user to a page that displays more detailed information. See More

Top Con

Proprietary

Top Pro

Integrated issue tracking

GitHub has integrated issue tracking that makes hunting and solving bugs easy. Each project's issues page can be filtered by closed issues, assignees, labels and milestones. Issues are also sortable by age, number of comments and update time. See More

Top Con

Steals and sells your privacy

Top Pro

Provides free hosting for static websites

GitHub Pages is a feature that allows developers to create websites for their projects or anything they need a static website for, for free. See More

Top Con

Limited web browser support

Modern web browsers like Waterfox are no longer supported, breaking basic UI elements and making the site unusable. See More

Top Pro

Anyone can fork

Any user can fork a project and submit a pull request. If accepted by the owner, the fork will be merged with the master branch. See More

Top Con

No OAuth2 support

In order to sign in to GitHub, users have to sign up first with unique credentials for GitHub only, so no option to sign in with Google+ or Facebook. See More

Top Pro

GitHub makes it easy to find open source projects

GitHub is the largest host in the world for open source projects. Developers from all over the world fork and work on countless projects hosted on it. GitHub's search box is a powerful tool that allows developers to find open source projects in areas they are interested in and where they can immediately start to contribute. GitHub also has a page dedicated solely at exploring and finding open source projects, grouping them by each topic they cover. In the same view, GitHub displays trending repositories and sorting them by day, week or month. See More

Top Con

Owned by Microsoft

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Gist (Snippets)

Gists is GitHub's way to easily share code, text snippets or any kind of information with the world. They are an easy way to share text and they work as Git repos, which means that they are forkable and versioned. They are also fully compatible with Git. See More

Top Con

Very inconvenient UI

Very hard to switch between projects. See More

Top Pro

Simplified team management tools

GitHub has easy and useful features to control teams, large and small alike. Team members can be given different powers on different projects, ranging from the ability to create them, to only being able to have read-only access. See More

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Convenient continuous integration with Travis CI

GitHub can be integrated with Travis CI for code testing and deployment, furthermore it is free of charge for free open-source projects. See More

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Supports Two-Factor authentication

GitHub has added another layer of security to their user accounts. This layer comes in the form of Two-Factor authentication. After it's enabled, GitHub delivers an authentication code by SMS, or by a free application for smartphones. After two-factor authentication is enabled, the authentication code is sent to the account owner's phone any time someone attempts to sign into their GitHub account. This means that only someone who has both the password and authentication code can sign into the account. See More

Top Pro

Easy integration with cloud hosting services

Many widely used cloud hosting services are easily integrated with GitHub. Any project hosted on GitHub can be set up on these services in seconds. Some companies that offer this feature are: Amazon Web Services Google Cloud Heroku Windows Azure See More

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Support for mandatory code reviews

GitHub allows maintainers to make code reviews mandatory for any repository they choose. See More

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Code search functionality

GitHub supports searching code. Whether it's from a specific project or from the whole website. What's more, GitHub has excellent SEO and you can easily find any line of code hosted on public repos on GitHub even from Google. See More

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Excellent native apps

GitHub has native apps for mobile (iOS and Android), Windows and Mac, which make code deployment easier and faster. See More

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Student discounts

GitHub offers very good student discounts along with other things, such as AWS credits. See More

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Additional features for academics

For those with a valid .edu email or valid school ID there are additional benefits such as free private hosting. While it may take time for the account to be verified, it can easily be worth it. See More

Top Pro

Project management tools available

GitHub has a tool called (quite intuitively) "Projects". It helps teams to organize and prioritize the work they are doing by creating roadmaps and release checklists. See More

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GitKraken Client

Top Pro

Beautiful user interface

It's modern and beautiful, it looks clean and refined. It's simple: the most used features (pull, push, branch, stash, commit) are accessible in one click, and are the only buttons. The other features aren't in complicated menus nor in hundreds of buttons, but rather displayed when you right-click on something. It gives more space to the commits, i.e. the most important things. In fact, you can collapse or reduce the other menus/windows. It displays the current path (project, branch) on an horizontal (clickable) bar at the top. It's just a matter of taste but I prefer this to the traditional "tree" view. It has undo and redo buttons on the main window. It supports some drag-and-drop gestures (for example: drag-and-droping the local branch to the remote one pushes it). See More

Top Con

No longer free for use with private repos

You can use GitKraken for free if you're working on a public hosted repo, but you can no longer work on a private hosted one without paying. See More

Top Pro

Extremely easy to use

A lot of care has gone into trying to make GitKraken as easy and intuitive as possible and it show. Every action is quick and painless with no more user interaction than necessary. For example, switching to another branch is as easy as a double-click on the sidebar. See More

Top Con

Slow

Can take between 2 and 5 seconds to load a repository, if not crashing while loading See More

Top Pro

Cross-platform

Built on top of Electron, so it runs on Linux, Mac, and Windows. See More

Top Con

Must log into GitKraken servers to use the free version

All functionality is disabled unless you register for a free account and remain logged in. There is the $99/user/yr Enterprise option. It allows you to deploy a Linux License Server in an air-gapped/offline environment. See More

Top Pro

Offers a simple way of undoing mistakes

GitKraken has simple undo/redo buttons that work the same way you'd expect in any other software. See More

Top Con

Has memory-related issues

Like most Electron apps, GitKraken has some memory-related issues. For starter, it requires more memory for an action than an equivalent non-Electron application. Although this should not be a problem most of the time for people who use machines with lots of RAM (after all, RAM is pretty cheap nowadays), it can have some issues when opening large repositories and there have been cases where GitKraken failed to open very large repositories or started lagging once they were opened. See More

Top Pro

Some of the best integration with hosted version control services

GitKraken can be connected to Github, Gitlab, or Bitbucket accounts through OAuth. From that point onward most if not all actions that are related to these services can be done inside GitKraken. Things like: cloning or forking a repository, adding a remote, pushing to a remote repository hosted on these services can be done inside the app. You can even manage pull requests inside GitKraken for example. All pull requests for a certain branch for example are shown on that branch's graph. See More

Top Con

Not open source

It is gratis (no cost) but is not open source. The community cannot fix problems in it, audit it for security, or trust it in general. See More

Top Pro

Free version available

There are both pro and free versions available. The free version is pretty complete feature-wise for day-to-day operations. See More

Top Con

Not free for commercial use

The free version of GitKraken cannot be used in commercial projects. See More

Top Pro

Under constant improvement

A quick glance at GitKraken's release notes shows how frequently it's updated. Updates are released on a 2-4 week cycle and each one brings new features and bug fixes. See More

Top Con

Crashes once in a while

Under specific circumstances, like resetting 5000+ changes, the GUI will crash. See More

Top Pro

GitFlow support out of the box

Supports GitFlow out of the box. See More

Top Con

Has annoying popup reminders that ask you to upgrade to the Pro version

Understandable, since nobody is entitled to use work done by others for free, but annoying nonetheless. See More

Top Pro

Has a FuzzyFinder

GitKraken has a fuzzy finder to switch between repos/files. See More

Top Con

Amending merge output is a pro feature

In most cases of Merge Conflicts, users are stuck with auto-merge or manually resolving it by hand. This is because in the Free Tier, users can only (1) Keep File (ver 1), (2) Keep File (ver 2), (3) Auto-merge, or (4) Use External Merge Tool. In addition, using External Merge Tools is very limited because GitKraken (all tiers) restricts External Merge Tools to only those it managed to Auto-detect. It also does not support custom arguments for the External Tools. Modifying the merge output directly, or Selecting lines to keep/discard, is a Paid Feature. See More

Top Pro

Perfect for beginner developers

GitKraken is easy to use and is brilliant for the beginner developers. See More

Top Con

Can be confusing

Top Pro

Has a dark theme

No more eyestrain staring at white screens - GitKraken has a lovely dark theme. See More

Top Con

No real commitement to Linux support

Infinite loop on Fedora 28, no debug feature or stacktrace available, no clear dependencies listing.... No real support on Linux. See More

Top Pro

Good keyboard shortcuts

Top Con

Ugly, looks like a web app

Specs

Platforms:Windows, macOS, Linux

Integrations:GitHub, Bitbucket, GitLab, Azure DevOps, Bitbucket Server, Jira Issues, GitKraken Boards Issues

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Gitbucket

Top Pro

Easy to install

Top Con

Can not rename or delete user

GitBucket just disables user login and deletes user's repository. See More

Top Pro

Wiki and issues available

GitBucket has support for wiki, issues, pull requests and mail notification. See More

Top Con

Still has some features that have not yet been implemented

Some features are still missing, but are in the process of being implemented. Such as: Network graph Statistics Watch / Star See More

Top Pro

Supports public and private repositories

GitBucket supports both public and private repos, as well as user management (only allowed to administrators). See More

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Online file editing

Support for file editing right from the browser UI is supported. See More

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LDAP support

The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol is an application protocol for accessing and maintaining distributed directory information services over an Internet Protocol (IP) network. See More

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Monthly release

New version of GitBucket released every month. See More

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Platforms:Windows/Linux/Mac

Technology:Scala, Java

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Deveo

Top Con

Proprietary

There's no open source version of Deveo available. See More

Top Pro

Git, Subversion and Mercurial support

Deveo supports Git, Subversion and Mercurial repositories. You can access the repositories through HTTPS and SSH protocols. See More

Top Con

On-premises plan is paid

Deveo's on-premises plan is a paid service. The price is 3 euros, per user, per month, and it includes a free 30-day trial. See More

Top Pro

Repositories are grouped by project

In services such as Gitlab and GitHub repositories are not grouped by default. When doing other than open source software development, however, Deveo generally has at least backend and front-end in separate repositories that both connect to the same project. In Deveo, repositories always belong to a project and share the same Wiki and Issue tracking space, which makes it easier to find the project specific information. See More

Top Pro

Both Cloud and On-Premises supported

You can install Deveo on your own servers, as mentioned above, or use it from Deveo's own cloud instance. See More

Top Pro

Local accounts, LDAP, AD or SAML2 single sign-on

Deveo supports using multiple authentication scenarios. You may use Deveo local user database for simple usage. You can authenticate Deveo against your organization's centralized user directory (LDAP, AD) and you can even integrate it with an SAML2 based single sign-on service. See More

Top Pro

Supports also Subversion and Mercurial

In addition to Git support, Deveo also supports hosting Mercurial and Subversion repositories. Deveo code reviews also support feature branch workflows using Mercurial bookmarks or branches. See More

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WebDAV repository support

In addition to Git, Subversion and Mercurial repositories, you can host WebDAV based binary repositories in Deveo. WebDAV is a technology that allows you to set up private dropbox type repositories where you can simply drag-and-drop files through OSX finder for example. It's a convenient way to store binary packages, project documentation, specifications and more. See More

Top Pro

Scalability and high-availability

Deveo can be set up in three different modes: combo, where you have everything on one server, high-availability, where you have separated database server, and cluster, where you have multiple web nodes serving the load. The cluster setup has been field-tested with thousands of concurrent users. See More

Top Pro

Better issue tracking than GitHub, Gitlab or Bitbucket

Issue tracking in Deveo is better compared to GitHub, Bitbucket or Gitlab. In Deveo you can define arbitrary states for issues, meaning you can model your team's workflow as it is in real life. In addition to arbitrary states for issues, you have free control over priorities and labels that enhance the experience. See More

Top Pro

Git powered wiki

Deveo has a project based built-in markdown based Wiki, that allows you to host your project documentation in one place. The whole wiki history is saved to a Git repository, which you can checkout and edit locally if you need. Deveo offers a unique split view for editing the wiki pages, that updates the preview automatically while you write. No longer do you need to guess whether the markdown syntax is right or wrong. See More

Top Pro

Free private repositories

Deveo's cloud is free to use with unlimited private repositories, users, and projects. The free plan includes 1GB of total disk space, and after that the price is 1 euro/GB/month. See More

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Free cloud instance

Deveo offers a free cloud with. You'll be able of signing up here. See More

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sourcehut

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Top Pro

Lightweight

No javascript, drasticly light interface See More

Top Pro

Email-Based Communication and Coordination

Unlike other services that make their communication services like mainstream social media, Sourcehut uses good old mailing lists to make things simpler. It capitalizes on git's "git send-email" feature. This is in adherence to Sourcehut's general design, which is to make simple, reliable products. The official website is at https://lists.sr.ht, and they have a tutorial on setting your git client up at https://git-send-email.io See More

Top Pro

Includes build service

Sourcehut has an automated build service at https://builds.sr.ht that can build your code from it's repository. Because the project is in alpha, this service is currently free (they will build your projects for you for free!) See More

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"Pro" features are free since the project is still in Alpha

Because the project is in alpha, the "pro" features are free. See More

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Gerrit

Top Pro

Authorizations for users and groups

Gerrit supports group and user authorizations for various repositories. Only authorized users can push code to the master branch. See More

Top Con

The UI is very cluttered

Gerrit's user interface is very cluttered and messy, and quite ugly to look at. The navigations is also not very intuitive, which may hold some people off. See More

Top Pro

Integration with LDAP, bug-tracking tools, CI, etc.

Full integration with LDAP (users, groups), bug-tracking systems (Jira, Bugzilla), CI (Jenkins, Hudson) and other tools. See More

Top Con

Difficult to customize

Fixing the UI/UX problems with CSS customization is nearly impossible. The markup doesn't include many classes, making it difficult to target CSS rules to specific elements of the interface. See More

Top Pro

Configurable project workflow, not always feature branches are the most suitable workflow

Top Pro

Project policy customization can be done with hooks and plugins

Multiple hooks available on various events. Plugin API for more customization of project behavior. See More

Top Pro

Self-contained installation of Java package, simple upgrades

Most upgrades require only download of new war file and running it in init mode. In some rare cases db reindex is required. See More

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Web UI extension with plugins

A number of plugins available for web UI extension. Plugin API for more customization. See More

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Platforms:Linux

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Newfang Cloud

Top Pro

Transparent and Simple Billing

I am currently using it for free under Alpha release, but the pricing is straight forward with billing for storage and download, no unnecessary list of unbundled API' are billed. All the usage is logged on the blockchain that can be audited against the bill. See More

Top Con

New to the market

The service is relatively new, but migration shouldn't be a problem See More

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Privacy Focused and Transparent

All the files are encrypted and access is logged on the blockchain that I can verify. Only those with access can view the files. See More

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Good for video streaming & hosting

Due to the distributed nature of servers, video streaming is performant and better than current providers. Quite cheaper too. Files are downloaded from an edge network. See More

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Very easy to integrate

SDK just has a couple of endpoints with good documentation See More

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Launchpad

Top Con

The web interface is complicated and hard to use

Other project hosts such as GitHub, BitBucket or GitLab have easy, simplistic UIs that help new and experienced developers alike to browse code right through the browser. LaunchPad on the other hand is very weak at this. Most of the projects have poor (if any) documentation and no way to determine a project's worth easily. The fastest way to do so with LaunchPad would be to download the project and look through the code manually, which is quite tiresome. See More

Top Pro

Support for web based translation

Launchpad makes it easy to translate free open source projects into virtually any language in the world. Users are allowed to start working on translating any project they want just by having a Launchpad account and a web browser. Most of the time they don't have to even join a team to start working and the editor is web based, so there is no need for any special software. See More

Top Pro

Integrated build/deployment system

If you use launchpad, it gives you a build system (on their platform) as well as easier deployment - user merely adds your PPA to their sources.list file. Deployment (on Ubuntu, at least - other debians as well) doesn't get simpler than this. See More

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Great bug tracking features

Launchpad is built to be used for open source projects, as such it needs a powerful bug trackers to allow developers who want to contribute to jump right in. Launchpad displays bug statistics (total number of bugs, number of bugs fixed etc...) as well. Bugs can be searched and displayed from every project hosted on Launchpad or for single projects. See More

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AraxisMerge

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Point and click merging

AraxisMerge has a feature which is very helpful especially for beginners. By clicking on different parts of a text file you can select all the parts to added in a final merged file. The comparison display also updates real-time as the merge happens. See More

Top Con

Commercial

AraxisMerge is not free: $129 Standard and $269 Professional But this is peanuts for a tool that you can use all day for the rest of your developer life. See More

Top Pro

Directory comparisons

AraxisMerge supports comparing different directories with each other. See More

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Beautiful interface

Top Pro

Three way merges

AraxisMerge supports three way merges. See More

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Update alternative files Word, PDF and even images

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Works great on large files

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Platforms:Windows, Mac

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TFS

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Concurrent

TFS contains very few locks and aims to be as suitable for multithreaded systems as possible. It makes use of multiple truly concurrent structures to manage the data, and scales linearly by the number of cores. This is perhaps the most important feature of TFS. See More

Top Con

Not ready for use

While many components are complete, TFS itself is not ready for use. See More

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Usable in other systems

It was never planned to be Redox-only. See More

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Revision history

TFS stores a revision history of every file without imposing extra overhead. This means that you can revert any file into an earlier version, backing up the system automatically and without imposed overhead from copying. See More

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Data integrity

TFS, like ZFS, stores full checksums of the file (not just metadata), and on top of that, it is done in the parent block. That means that almost all data corruption will be detected upon read. See More

Top Pro

Copy-on-write semantics

Top Pro

O(1) recursive copies

Like some other file systems, TFS can do recursive copies in constant time, but there is an unique addition: TFS doesn't copy even after it is mutated. How? It maintains segments of the file individually, such that only the updated segment needs copying. See More

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Guaranteed atomicity

The system will never enter an inconsistent state (unless there is hardware failure), meaning that unexpected power-off won't ever damage the system. See More

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Improved caching

TFS puts a lot of effort into caching the disk to speed up disk accesses. It uses machine learning to learn patterns and predict future uses to reduce the number of cache misses. TFS also compresses the in-memory cache, reducing the amount of memory needed. See More

Top Pro

Better file monitoring

CoW is very suitable for high-performance, scalable file monitoring, but unfortunately only few file systems incorporate that. TFS is one of those. See More

Top Pro

All memory safe

TFS uses only components written in Rust. As such, memory unsafety is only possible in code marked unsafe, which is checked extra carefully. See More

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Full coverage testing

TFS aims to be full coverage with respect to testing. This gives relatively strong guarantees on correctness by instantly revealing large classes of bugs. See More

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Improved garbage collection

TFS uses Bloom filters for space-efficient and fast garbage collection. TFS allows the FS garbage collector to run in the background without blocking the rest of the file system. See More

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SSD friendly

TFS tries to avoid the write limitation in SSD by repositioning dead sectors. See More

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Full-disk compression

TFS is the first file system to incorporate complete full-disk compression through a scheme we call RACC (random-access cluster compression). This means that every cluster is compressed only affecting performance slightly. It is estimated that you get 60-120% more usable space. See More

Top Pro

Asynchronous

TFS is asynchronous: operations can happen independently; writes and reads from the disk need not block. See More

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Sublimerge

Top Pro

Three-way diff allows easy merging of files

Top Con

Bad tech support

Top Pro

sublimerge

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Top Con

It's NOT Open Source

You can't fix or, implement nothing. And when the developer abandons the project you will be left in the lurch. See More

Top Pro

Highlights intraline changes

Top Con

It's not free

Nither as free price nor as free in freedom. See More

Top Pro

Built-in support for Git, Subversion and Mercurial commands

Sublimerge automatically integrates with your version control history, and lets you compare between revisions, branches, remotes, and the staging area. See More

Top Con

Cannot compare text within the same file

Sublimerge can only compare entire file diffs, but not two selections within a file. Comparing within files can be useful for example, by refactoring two similar functions to use a shared function. With Sublimerge, you need to copy the sections into two new temporary tabs and compare between the two. This can be cumbersome, as if you have another untitled file, you won't be able to know which one is which. See More

Top Pro

Can compare to clipboard contents

Top Con

No version control integration

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Heroku

Top Pro

Easy to start with

Getting started with Heroku is very easy. It's a very straightforward procedure and a beginner can set up their first app in two minutes. Often it's just a matter of a couple of git commands and it's all set up and running. The official Heroku docmentation also helps a lot. See More

Top Con

Constrained by addons

If you want to fully customize your production environment, then Heroku can be seriously constraining. Installing libraries or services can not be done unless there is already a Heroku plugin for it. See More

Top Pro

Excellent error logs

When your deploy fails you see a legitimate error log. Many of the other PaaS give you nondescript messages and debugging is a pain. Debugging Heroku wins by comparison. See More

Top Con

Further deployments are slow

While starting with Heroku is fast and easy, and the first few deployments are actually very fast, larger applications tend to have slower deployments. It takes some time for the dynos to restart and while they are restarting the application is completely offline. Which means that you can lose precious seconds of application time. See More

Top Pro

Add-ons let you easily add features and technologies

Heroku has a vast list of plugins and services that can be added to an instance. These plugins cover things from databases to email systems. This remove the task of having to install services and setting them up manually. Heroku does it all for you. See More

Top Con

Really expensive

Heroku starts getting really expensive once you leave that free tier. It's not just the bare Heroku service that is costly, the addons as well are very pricey. See More

Top Pro

Simple scaling

Heroku instances can easily be scaled up or down by increasing or decreasing the number of available dynos for that instance. This can be done through the CLI or through Heroku's web UI. See More

Top Pro

Dedicated build servers

Heroku has dedicated servers for building app dependencies, to ensure that you won't have issues like "out of memory" errors when deploying your app. See More

Top Pro

Mature

Heroku is one of the oldest PaaS providers. The fact that it's been around for such a long time means that it had a lot of time to mature over the years. There's also a massive number of articles, guides and tutorials on Heroku out there for beginners and advanced users. See More

Top Pro

Free option

Heroku offers a free tier which contains a single dyno instance. It offers 512MB of memory and 100MB swap space. See More

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CodeCompare

Top Con

No longer supported

Problematic with Visual Studio 2022. Semantic code comparison (its main selling point) does not support newer language variations. See More

Top Pro

Graphical showing of where code is added or removed

It does not add a blank line in the other code-pane to show where code was added or deleted. It simply draws a line to show point out its location. See More

Top Con

Does not support custom comment markings

Some compilers use ";" to specify in-line commenting. But as that is not a common method, all added comments are marked as new code. So it becomes difficult to find changes in the functionality of the code. See More

Top Pro

Three-way comparison and automatic merging

Three comparison panes with horizontal and vertical layouts Integrates with version control systems as the merging tool for conflicting file revisions Non-conflicting changes are merged automatically Merging conflicts are highlighted One-click conflict resolution with a mouse button See More

Top Con

Does not support move-detection

Very few programs detect move of blocks of code. Most just show deleted and added instead. See More

Top Pro

Supports comparing folders

Can diff entire folders. See More

Top Con

Free version is limited

Whereas there is a free version, it is missing a lot of great features that you're forced to pay for if you want. See More

Top Pro

Integrated into Visual Studio

Can be used either as a stand-alone product or as the built in diff/merge tool for Visual Studio. See More

Top Pro

Clear overview that marks only the changes, not every line with a change

Most compare tools mark every changed line with colour, making the code just a mess with thousands of coloured lines, while all that might be changed is a sign/character on each line. Code Compare draws boxes around each changed segment and highlights only the real change with a colour. See More

Top Pro

Offers free version and paid for version

You get a lot more if you pay for the pro version. See More

Specs

Platforms:Windows

License:FREE/$49,95

Dev platforms:Windows

Lexical Comparison:C#, C++, Visual Basic, JavaScript, Java, XML

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Free and open source

Not lightweight

At feature parity with GitHub

The upgrade process fails more often than not

Regular updates

Not all features are free

Has wikis and pages

Kind of slow

Supports pull requests

LDAP lacking

Easy to install with the packages

Requires at least 1GB of RAM

Support for protected branches

Bad code review possibilities

Good web UI

Security risks

Issue tracking support

Integrates fully with LDAP

Comes with integrated CI/CD solution

Permissions and roles are supported

Supports Approvers/Reviewers of Pull/Merge requests

"Snippets" support

Scalable

Integrates with other systems by webhooks

Manages large files and binaries with integrated Git Annex

Can provide a Docker registry

Most GitLab EE features become part of GitLab CE after time

Integration with third party applications

Very feature rich RESTful-API

Allows Timetracking with Cycle-Analytics

Open source

Intuitive user interface

Managed by a non-profit organization

Lightweight

Integrated issue tracking system

Private repositories are free for only 5 users

Free unlimited private repositories for small teams

Proprietary

Native application for both Mac and Windows

Not as stable as github

Multiple authentication methods

Requires registration of a "universal atlassian account"

JIRA integration

Allows importing existing repositories

Supports hosting static websites

Unlimited contributors for private repositories for students/educators

Backed by a trustable company that has proved it's worth

Easy Trello integration

Excellent tutorials

High security

Hard to maintain and upgrade

Supports 3 major version control systems

Centralized user management

Powerful and flexible code review

Free and Open Source

Integrates fully with LDAP/AD and others

Online editing with preview

Best in class permission system

Header authentication plugin allows auth delegation to 3rd party systems

Light-weight

Open source and maintained by community

Intuitive interface

Non-memory consuming

Wiki and issues

Fast pace of development

Like Gogs but with faster bug fixes

Most common platforms

Easy install with MariaDB back-end

Simple to install/written in GO

Package Registry

Runs perfect on a Raspberry Pi 3

Customizable Templates

Focus only on key features

Large community

Rule of thumb: 1GB per repository, 100MB per file

Nice and usable UI

Proprietary

Integrated issue tracking

Steals and sells your privacy