When comparing Team Foundation Server Express 2017 vs Gitblit, the Slant community recommends Gitblit for most people. In the question“What are the best self-hosted web-based Git repository managers?” Gitblit is ranked 10th while Team Foundation Server Express 2017 is ranked 21st. The most important reason people chose Gitblit is:
Setting up is easy and usage is intuitive.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Free
Pro Just works
Setting up is easy and usage is intuitive.
Pro Free and open source
GitBlit is free and open source (under Apache License) .
Pro Cross-platform
Gitblit is available for Windows, OS X and Linux.
Pro Built-in authorization in windows
So you don't have to worry about setting up OpenSSH on Windows.
Cons
Con NOT FREE
its not fee it's only free-ware
Con No code reviews
It's not possible to start any code reviews on Pull Requests
Con Access controls are repository-based
Built in access controls are not branch-based.
Con No Squash Merge
There is no Squash Merge functionality
Con No project admins
There's no separation between a system admin and a project admin. There's owners for projects, but to create a new repository one has to be a general admin.