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Add to SafariWhen comparing Gitblit vs Meat!, 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 Meat! is ranked 19th. The most important reason people chose Gitblit is:
Setting up is easy and usage is intuitive.
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Pros
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.
Pro Nice material design
The design is minimalistic and based on today's standarts on material design. It uses colors which are pleasing to the eye and displays the information in an ordered way. The main view shows the latest activity sorted in a chronological order, displaying commits and pushes.
Every repo has it's own view, on the top there's the repo's name and a dropdown which displays the current branch with the ability to change to another branch or to create a new one.
On the right there's a vertical menu with links to add a new file, show the history or to download the current repository.
Pro Deployment is very easy
Deploying Meat! is very easy and it can be done in multiple platforms by using Virtual Machines such as Mware Fusion, VirtualBox, VM Workstation & Payer, or vSphere.
Cons
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.
Con Not open source with a license prone to errors
Although the self-hosted version is completely free and unlimited, it's not open source. It's proprietary license is filled with errors and it's open to a lot of interpretations in the future.
For example:
IF YOU DO NOT OWN THE SOFTWARE, THEN DO NOT DOWNLOAD,
INSTALL, COPY OR USE THE SOFTWARE.
Should be:
You further acknowledge that title and full ownership
rights to the Software will remain the exclusive property
of BigHit and/or its suppliers,
