Comparison of source-code-hosting facilities

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A source-code-hosting facility (also known as forge software) is a file archive and web hosting facility for source code of software, documentation, web pages, and other works, accessible either publicly or privately. They are often used by open-source software projects and other multi-developer projects to maintain revision and version history, or version control. Many repositories provide a bug tracking system, and offer release management, mailing lists, and wiki-based project documentation. Software authors generally retain their copyright when software is posted to a code hosting facilities.

## Contents

* 1 General information
* 2 Features
* 3 Version control systems
* 4 Popularity
* 5 Specialized hosting facilities
* 6 Former hosting facilities
* 7 See also
* 8 Notes
* 9 References
* 10 External links

## General information

Name  | Developer  | Initial release  | Free server?  | Free client?  | Associated collaborative development environment | Notes

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Assembla | Assembla, Inc.  | 2005  | No  | Unknown  | Unknown  |
Azure DevOps Server | Microsoft | 2012[1] | No  | No  | Azure DevOps Services

Microsoft Visual Studio

| Most features are free for open source projects or teams of 5 members or less[2]
Bitbucket | Atlassian | 2008  | No  | No  | Atlassian BitBucket Server, JIRA and Confluence | Denies service to Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, Crimea, Donetsk, and Luhansk[3]
CloudForge | CollabNet | 2012  | No  | Unknown  | Unknown  |
Codeberg | Codeberg e.V.[4] | 2019[5] | Yes  | Yes  | Forgejo | Codeberg e.V. is a non-profit which operates a public Forgejo-based software forge and bug tracker, and related services such as Codeberg Pages, a Weblate translation server, and CI/CD features via Woodpecker CI.
Gitea | CommitGo, Inc.[6] | 2016-12[7] | Yes  | Yes  | Gitea | Gitea is an open-source software tool funded on Open Collective that is designed for self-hosting, but also provides a free first-party instance.
Gitee | OSChina (CN)  | 2013  |  |  |  | Gitee is a proprietary online forge.
GForge | The GForge Group, Inc.[8] | 2006  | Partial  | Yes  | Cloud version – free up to 5 users. On-premises version – free up to 5 users.  | GForge is free for open source projects.
GitHub | GitHub, Inc. (A subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation)  | 2008-04  | No  | Yes  | Unknown  | Denies service to Crimea, North Korea, Sudan, Syria[9]

List of government takedown requests

GitLab | GitLab Inc.  | 2011-09[10] | Partial[11] | Yes[12] | GitLab FOSS – free software
GitLab Enterprise Edition (EE) – proprietary  | Denies service to Crimea, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, Syria[13]
GNU Savannah | Free Software Foundation | 2001-01  | Yes  | Yes  | Savane  | For use by projects with GPL compatible licenses, subject to staff approval.

Code access review.[14]

Helix TeamHub | Perforce Software  | 1995  | No  | No  | Cloud version – free up to 5 users. On-premises version requires a license.  | Free cloud version has no limits on projects within 5gb storage limit.

On-premises version has DevOps pipeline technology and free replicas.

Launchpad | Canonical | 2004  | Yes  | No  | Launchpad  | Supports Bazaar and Git for version-controlled repository hosting.[15][16]
OSDN | OSDN K.K.  | 2002–04  | Unknown  | Yes  | Unknown  | For open-source projects only.[17] Ad-supported. Defunct as of April 9, 2025.
Ourproject.org | Comunes Collective | 2002  | Yes  | Yes  | FusionForge | For free software, free culture and free content projects.
OW2  | OW2  | 2008  | No  | No  | GitLab | Oriented on middleware technology.
Phabricator | Phacility, Inc.  | 2010  | Yes  | Yes  | Phabricator | End of life.[18]
SEUL  | Unknown  | 1997-05  | Unknown  | No  | Unknown  |
SourceForge | Slashdot Media  | 1999-11  | Yes[19][20] | Yes  | Apache Allura | For use by open-source projects.[21] Ad-supported.
Subject to American export restrictions, so denies service to Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria.[22]
Name  | Manager  | Established  | Server side: all free software  | Client side: all-free JS code  | Developed or used CDE  | Notes

## Features

Name  | Code review  | Bug tracking  | Web hosting  | Wiki  | Translation system  | Shell server  | Mailing list  | Forum  | Personal repository  | Private repository  | Announce  | Build system  | Team  | Release binaries  | Self-hosting

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Assembla | Yes[23] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes  | No | No | No | Yes  | Yes[24] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Unknown | No
Azure DevOps Server | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes  | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes  | Commercially (Azure DevOps Server)
Bitbucket | Yes[25] | Yes[lower-alpha 1] | Yes[26] | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes  | Yes[lower-alpha 2] | No | Yes[27] | Yes  | No[28] | Commercially (Bitbucket Server formerly Stash)[lower-alpha 3]
Buddy  | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes  | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes[lower-alpha 4] | Yes | Yes | Yes
CloudForge | Unknown  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes | No | No | No | No | Unknown  | Unknown  | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | No
Codeberg | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No  | No | Yes | Yes[lower-alpha 5][29] | Unknown | Yes[30] | Yes | Yes | Yes (Forgejo)
GForge | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
Gitea | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No  | No | Yes | Yes | Unknown | Yes[31] | Yes | Yes | Yes
GitHub | Yes[32] | Yes[33][lower-alpha 6] | Yes[34] | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes  | Yes[35] | Yes | Yes | Commercially (GitHub Enterprise)
GitLab | Yes[36] | Yes | Yes[37] | Yes | No | No | No  | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes[38] | Yes  | Yes[39] | Yes[lower-alpha 7]
GNU Savannah | Yes[40] | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes  | No[41] | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | Unknown | Yes
Helix TeamHub | Yes[42] | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Yes  | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes, with hooks. Jenkins, TeamCity, etc. | No | Yes | Yes
Kallithea | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Unknown | No  | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes
Launchpad | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes  | No | Yes | No | Yes  | Yes[lower-alpha 8] | Yes  | Yes[lower-alpha 9] | Yes | Unknown | Yes
OSDN | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes  | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No
Ourproject.org | Unknown | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Unknown | Yes | Yes | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Yes
Phabricator | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Unknown | Yes | Unknown | Yes | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Yes
RhodeCode | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Unknown | No  | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes
SourceForge | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes  | Yes[lower-alpha 10] | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes
Name  | Code review  | Bug tracking  | Web hosting  | Wiki  | Translation system  | Shell server  | Mailing list  | Forum  | Personal repository  | Private repository  | Announce  | Build system  | Team  | Release binaries  | Self-hosting

## Version control systems

Name  | CVS | Git | Hg | SVN | BZR | TFVC  | Perforce | Fossil

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Assembla | No  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | No  | No  | Yes  | No
Azure DevOps Server | No  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | Yes  | No  | No
Bitbucket | No  | Yes  | Until Feb 2020[lower-alpha 3] | No  | No  | No  | No  | No
Buddy  | No  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No
Codeberg | No  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No
GForge | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No
Gitea | No  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No
GitHub | No  | Yes  | No  | Partial, until Jan 2024[43][44] | No  | No  | No  | No
GitLab | No  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No
GNU Savannah | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes[45] | No  | No  | No
Kallithea | No  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No
Launchpad | Import only  | Yes[16][46] | Import only[47] | Import only  | Yes  | No  | No  | Unknown
Ourproject.org | Yes  | No  | No  | Yes  | No  | No  | Unknown  | Unknown
OW2  | Dropped[48] | Yes  | No  | Dropped[48] | No  | No  | No  | No
Perforce TeamHub | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | Yes  | No
Phabricator | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No
RhodeCode | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No
SEUL.org  | Yes  | No  | No  | Yes  | No  | No  | Unknown  | Unknown
SourceForge | Dropped[49] | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Dropped[50] | No  | Unknown  | No[51]
Name  | CVS | Git | Hg | SVN | BZR | TFVC  | Perforce | Fossil

## Popularity

Name  | Users  | Projects

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Assembla | Unknown  | 526,581+[52]
Bitbucket | 5,000,000[53] | Unknown
Buddy  | Unknown  | Unknown
CloudForge | Unknown  | Unknown
Codeberg | 110,000[54] | 138,000[54]
Gitea | Unknown  | Unknown
GitHub | 180,000,000[55] | 330,000,000[55]
GitLab | 31,190,000[56] | 546,000[57][lower-alpha 11]
GNU Savannah | 93,346[58] | 3,848[58]
Launchpad | 3,965,288[59] | 40,881[60]
OSDN | 54,826[61] | 6,294[61]
Ourproject.org | 6,353[62] | 1,846[62]
OW2  | Unknown  | Unknown
SEUL  | Unknown  | Unknown
SourceForge | 3,700,000[63] | 500,000[63]
Name  | Users  | Projects

Discontinued: CodePlex, Gna!, Google Code.

## Specialized hosting facilities

The following are open-source software hosting facilities that only serve a specific narrowly focused community or technology.

Name  | Ad-free  | CVS | Git | SVN | Arch | Notes

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Drupal | Yes  | No  | Yes  | No  | No  | Only for Drupal related projects.
freedesktop.org | Yes  | No  | Yes  | No  | No  | Only for interoperability and shared base technology for free software desktop environments on Linux and other Unix-like operating systems, including the X Window System (X11) and cairo (graphics).
mozdev.org  | Yes  | Yes  | Unknown  | No  | No  | Only for Mozilla-related projects. Defunct as of July 2020.
Name  | Ad-free  | CVS | Git | SVN | Arch | Notes

## Former hosting facilities

* Alioth (Debian) – In 2018, Alioth has been replaced by a GitLab based solution hosted on salsa.debian.org. Alioth has been finally switched off in June 2018.
* BerliOS – abandoned in April 2014[64]
* Betavine – abandoned somewhere in 2015.
* CodeHaus – shut down in May 2015[65]
* CodePlex – shut down in December 2017.
* Fedora Hosted – closed in March 2017[66]
* Gitorious – shut down in June 2015.
* Gna! – shut down in 2017.
* Google Code – closed in January 2016, all projects archived. See http://code.google.com/archive/.
* java.net – Java.net and kenai.com hosting closed April 2017.
* OSDN \- shut down in April 2025.[67]
* Phabricator – wound down operations 1 June 2021, all projects continued to be hosted with very limited support after 31 August 2021.[18]
* Tigris.org – shut down in July 2020.[68]
* Mozdev.org - shut down in July 2020.

## See also

* Comparison of version-control software
* Distributed version control
* Forge
* List of free software project directories
* List of version-control software
* Source code escrow for closed-source software
* Version control (source-code-management systems)

## Notes

1. ↑ Anyone can submit Bug Reports without logging in.
2. ↑ Limited to 5 users on free plan (see Pricing – bitbucket.org)
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Self hosted version is known as BitBucket Server and only supports Git repositories
4. ↑ Builds are run in Docker containers
5. ↑ Codeberg is only for public open-source code, private repositories exist but are not officially permitted except as needed to support FLOSS projects
6. ↑ Requires one to log in to report a Bug.
7. ↑ Has an open source FOSS edition and commercial Enterprise Edition
8. ↑ Currently only available for security vulnerability updates
9. ↑ Ubuntu
10. ↑ Private repositories can be used to set up a project before going live. However, SourceForge requires that the project remains open source. See SourceForge Support.
11. ↑ GitLab is not fundamentally organized by projects, so the count is somewhat difficult.

## References

1. ↑ Somasegar, S. (2012-10-31). "Team Foundation Service is Released". http://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/somasegar/2012/10/31/team-foundation-service-is-released/.
2. ↑ "Pricing for Azure DevOps Services". https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/devops/azure-devops-services/.
3. ↑ "Export Restrictions". https://www.atlassian.com/legal/cloud-terms-of-service. }}
4. ↑ "Imprint". https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/org/src/branch/main/Imprint.md.
5. ↑ "Codeberg.org launched". 2019-01-01. https://blog.codeberg.org/codebergorg-launched.html.
6. ↑ "Gitea Official Website". https://about.gitea.com.
7. ↑ "Announcement blog post". 8 December 2016. https://blog.gitea.io/2016/12/welcome-to-gitea/.
8. ↑ "Comprehensive, Elegant, Scalable Teamwork". GForge. https://gforge.com. Retrieved 2022-04-05.
9. ↑ "GitHub and Trade Controls". https://help.github.com/en/github/site-policy/github-and-trade-controls.
10. ↑ "About". https://about.gitlab.com.
11. ↑ "GitLab FOSS – free software". https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-foss.
12. ↑ Gerwitz, Mike (2015-05-20). "GitLab, Gitorious, and Free Software". GitLab. https://about.gitlab.com/2015/05/20/gitlab-gitorious-free-software/.
13. ↑ "GCP migration and Areas where google is blocked". https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/migration/issues/649.
14. ↑ Hosting requirements [Savannah]. Savannah.gnu.org. Retrieved 2015-04-01.
15. ↑ "Code/Git". https://help.launchpad.net/Code/Git.
16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 "Launchpad Blog". 2015-05-01. http://blog.launchpad.net/general/git-code-hosting-beta.
17. ↑ "About OSDN". https://osdn.net/projects/docs-en/wiki/About_OSDN.
18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 "Phacility is Winding Down Operations". https://admin.phacility.com/phame/post/view/11/phacility_is_winding_down_operations/.
19. ↑ "About Allura". https://sourceforge.net/p/allura/wiki/Allura Wiki/.
20. ↑ "The Next SourceForge". https://sourceforge.net/create/.
21. ↑ "About (SourceForge)". https://sourceforge.net/about.
22. ↑ "Terms of Use". SlashdotMedia. 18 February 2016. 8\. Registration; Use of Secure Areas and Passwords. https://slashdotmedia.com/terms-of-use/.
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25. ↑ – Using Mercurial Queues And Bitbucket.org
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27. ↑ Bitbucket Pipelines
28. ↑ Issue #11404 – Bitbucket equivalent of GitHub Releases? (BB-13572)
29. ↑ "Can I use private repositories for my project? | Frequently Asked Questions". https://docs.codeberg.org/getting-started/faq/#can-i-use-private-repositories-for-my-project?.
30. ↑ "Using Codeberg's instance of Woodpecker CI | Frequently Asked Questions". https://docs.codeberg.org/ci/#using-codeberg's-instance-of-woodpecker-ci.
31. ↑ "Gitea compared to other Git hosting options – Docs". https://docs.gitea.io/en-us/comparison/.
32. ↑ "Pull Requests 2.0 · GitHub". 2010-08-31. https://github.com/blog/712-pull-requests-2-0.
33. ↑ no file attachments, but images can be embedded GitHub Issue Tracker – GitHub
34. ↑ "GitHub Pages". https://pages.github.com/.
35. ↑ "Features • GitHub Actions". https://github.com/features/actions.
36. ↑ "Features". https://about.gitlab.com/features/.
37. ↑ "GitLab Pages". http://doc.gitlab.com/ee/pages/README.html.
38. ↑ "Continuous Integration". https://about.gitlab.com/features/gitlab-ci-cd/.
39. ↑ "GitLab 8.2 released". 22 November 2015. https://about.gitlab.com/2015/11/22/gitlab-8-2-released/.
40. ↑ "Savannah's Maintenance Docs: How To Get Your Project Approved Quickly". http://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/HowToGetYourProjectApprovedQuickly. "The review we do can be lengthy and difficult for both the submitter and the reviewer. Be sure to follow these steps; if your project doesn't comply with our requirements, we will ask you to make changes to your project or register again. This ensures a level of quality for projects hosted at Savannah, and even more important, raises awareness of these legal and philosophical issues related to free software."
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43. ↑ Collaborating on GitHub with Subversion. Github.com (26 June 2012). Retrieved 2015-04-01.
44. ↑ Cooper, Matt (20 January 2023). "Sunsetting Subversion support". https://github.blog/2023-01-20-sunsetting-subversion-support/.
45. ↑ Savannah Support Request, sr #106417 (24 October 2008), GNU Bazaar on Savannah, http://savannah.gnu.org/support/?106417, retrieved 2008-12-10
46. ↑ "Launchpad Blog". 2009-07-08. http://blog.launchpad.net/bazaar/git-imports.
47. ↑ "Launchpad Blog". 2009-10-29. http://blog.launchpad.net/bazaar/accessing-git-subversion-and-mercurial-from-bazaar.
48. ↑ 48.0 48.1 "Gforge decommission". OW2 Technology Council. https://tc.ow2.org/view/wiki/Gforge_decommission.
49. ↑ "SourceForge Support / Documentation / CVS". https://sourceforge.net/p/forge/documentation/CVS/.
50. ↑ SourceForge docs for bazaar, Bazaar is no longer available for new projects, they only offer limited support for Bazaar for projects previously using it on the Classic SourceForge system (1 July 2013).
51. ↑ Feature Request: Fossil Repositories
52. ↑ "Assembla Keeps Code, Tasks, and Teams Happily Together". http://assembla.com/home.
53. ↑ "Bitbucket Cloud: 5 million developers and 900,000 teams". 7 September 2016. https://blog.bitbucket.org/2016/09/07/bitbucket-cloud-5-million-developers-900000-teams/.
54. ↑ 54.0 54.1 "Codeberg.org". https://codeberg.org/about.
55. ↑ 55.0 55.1 "About". https://github.com/about.
56. ↑ "Is it any good?" (in en). GitLab. https://about.gitlab.com/is-it-any-good/#gitlab-is-the-most-used-devops-tool.
57. ↑ "2015 was a great year at GitLab!". GitLab Inc.. 2016-02-11. https://about.gitlab.com/2016/02/11/gitlab-retrospective/. "564k January 2016"
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60. ↑ Projects registered in Launchpad. launchpad.net. Retrieved 2017-10-18
61. ↑ 61.0 61.1 "OSDN Site top". https://osdn.net/.
62. ↑ 62.0 62.1 "Welcome". http://ourproject.org.
63. ↑ 63.0 63.1 "About". https://sourceforge.net/about.
64. ↑ "BerliOS Developer: New berliOS portal launched". http://developer.berlios.de/forum/forum.php?forum_id=39220.
65. ↑ "Codehaus: The once great house of code has fallen". 2 March 2015. https://www.javaworld.com/article/2892227/codehaus-the-once-great-house-of-code-has-fallen.html.
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68. ↑ "Tigris.org: Shut down on 1-July-2020". http://www.tigris.org/.

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Version control software

Years, where available, indicate the date of first stable release. Systems with names in italics are no longer maintained or have planned end-of-life dates.

Local only|

| Free/open-source|

* RCS (1982)
* SCCS (1972)

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Proprietary|

* PVCS (1985)
* QVCS (1991)

Client–server|

| Free/open-source|

* CVS (1986, 1990 in C)
* CVSNT (1998)
* QVCS Enterprise (1998)
* Subversion (2000)

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Proprietary|

* AccuRev SCM (2002)
* Azure DevOps
* Server (via TFVC) (2005)
* Services (via TFVC) (2014)
* ClearCase (1992)
* CMVC (1994)
* Dimensions CM (1980s)
* DSEE (1984)
* Endevor (1980s)
* Integrity (2001)
* Panvalet (1970s)
* Perforce Helix (1995)
* SCLM (1980s?)
* Software Change Manager (1970s)
* StarTeam (1995)
* Surround SCM (2002)
* Synergy (1990)
* Team Concert (2008)
* Vault (2003)
* Visual SourceSafe (1994)

Distributed|

| Free/open-source|

* ArX (2003)
* BitKeeper (2000)
* Codeville (2005)
* Darcs (2002)
* DCVS (2002)
* Fossil (2007)
* Git (2005)
* GNU arch (2001)
* GNU Bazaar (2005)
* Mercurial (2005)
* Monotone (2003)
* Veracity (2010)

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Proprietary|

* Azure DevOps
* Server (via Git) (2013)
* Services (via Git) (2014)
* TeamWare (1992)
* Code Co-op (1997)
* Plastic SCM (2006)

Concepts|

* Baseline
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* Changeset
* Commit
* Data comparison
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