When comparing GitPrep vs Meat!, the Slant community recommends Meat! for most people. In the question“What are the best self-hosted web-based Git repository managers?” Meat! is ranked 19th while GitPrep is ranked 23rd. The most important reason people chose Meat! is:
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.
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Pros
Pro Private and public repositories supported
GitPrep supports private and public repositories.
Pro Fast and lightweight
GitPrep is written in Perl and uses SQLite as a database, this makes of GitPrep one of the lighter and less resource-intensive alternatives out there.
Pro Easy Installation
GitPrep's setup and installation is very easy. It's only for linux/unix systems though, but it requires just some commands on the terminal to install.
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 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,