Comparison of source code hosting facilities

A source code repository is a file archive and web hosting facility where large amounts of source code for software, but also for web pages are kept, either publicly or privately. They are often used by open-source projects and other multi-developer projects to handle various versions. They help developers submit patches of code in an organized fashion. Often these web sites support version control, bug tracking, release management, mailing lists, and wiki-based documentation.

People who write software retain their copyright when their software is posted to any code hosting facilities, including the "non-gnu" section of GNU Savannah—with the exception of contributors to FSF-copyrighted programs at GNU Savannah.[1][2][3]

Overview

General information

Name Manager Established Notes Countries blocked Server side: all free software Client side: non-free JS code Developed and/or used CDE Require free software on registration Ad-free Cost
Alioth Debian Project 2003 Preference for Debian related projects Yes No FusionForge ? Yes Gratis
Assembla Assembla, Inc 2005 No ? ? No Yes 7-day free trial. Commercial projects with customizable sets of tools and features.
Beanstalk Wildbit 2007 No ? ? No Yes Gratis for one repository
Betavine Vodafone 2007 No ? ? No No Gratis
Bitbucket Atlassian 2008 No Yes ? No Yes Free private repositories are limited to 5 users
CloudForge Collabnet 2000 No ? ? No Yes No
CodePlex Microsoft 2006 (May) Project must be OSS licensed No ? ? No Yes Gratis
Fedora Hosted Fedora Project ? Yes Yes ? No Yes ?
Freepository ? 1999 Yes Yes ? ? Yes Gratis accounts have web access only.
GitHub GitHub, Inc 2008 (April) No yes ? No Yes Gratis for public, paid for private.
Gogs Gogs Team 2014 (February) Yes yes ? No Yes Free
GitLab GitLab B.V. 2011 (September)[4] Yes yes GitLab Community Edition (CE) free software, GitLab Enterprise Edition (EE) proprietary No Yes Unlimited public and private repos, unlimited public and private collaborators[5]
Gna! The Gna! people 2004 (January) Only for free software projects. Code access review[6] Yes no Savane Yes Yes Gratis
GNOME Git Repositories GNOME Foundation 2008 Accessing this resource is only granted to developers requesting explicit permission to existing GNOME module maintainers. Yes No Cgit No Yes Gratis, but limited to a set of pre-approved developers, see Notes.
GNU Savannah Savannah Administration 2001 (January) Project by the Free Software Foundation and projects with a GPL compatible license. Code access review[7] Yes no Savane Yes Yes Gratis
JavaForge Intland Software 2005 For open-source projects only. No No ? No Yes Gratis
Launchpad Canonical Ltd. 2004 Supports Bazaar for version-controlled repository hosting. Git support is in beta.[8] Yes Yes Launchpad No Yes ?
OSDN OSDN K.K. 2002 (April) For open-source projects only.[9] ? No ? No No Gratis
Ourproject.org Comunes Collective 2002 For free software, free culture and free knowledge projects. Yes Yes ? No Yes Gratis
OW2 Consortium OW2 Consortium ? oriented on middleware technology. ? Yes ? No Yes ?
SEUL ? 1997 (May) ? Yes ? No Yes ?
SourceForge BizX LLC 1999 (November) For open-source projects only.[10] Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, Syria[11] Yes[12][13] No Apache Allura No No Gratis, commercial services are offered as well
Tigris.org (community) 2000 Restricted to collaborative software development tools. Tigris.org is no longer accepting new project proposals. ? Yes ? No No ?
Visual Studio Online Microsoft 2012 (October)[14] ? Yes ? No Yes Free private repositories are limited to 5 users

Features

Name Code review Bug tracking Web hosting Wiki Translation system Shell server Mailing List Forum Personal branch Private branch Announce Build system Team Release Binaries Self-hosting
Alioth NoYesYesNoNoYesYes YesYesYesYesNoNo ?Yes
Assembla Yes[15]YesYesYesYes NoNoNoYes Yes[16] YesYesYes?No
Beanstalk Yes[17] No No NoNoNoNoNoYes Yes NoNoYesNoNo
Bitbucket Yes[18] Yes[n 1] Yes[19] YesNoNoNoNoYes Yes[n 2] NoNoYesYesCommercially (Stash)[n 3]
CloudForge ? Yes Yes YesNoNoNoNo? ? ????No
CodePlex NoYesNoYesNoNoYes YesNoNoNoNoNoYesNo
Fedora Hosted YesYesNoYesNoNo NoNoNoNoNoNoNo??
GitHub Yes[20] Yes[21][n 4] YesYesNoNoNoNoYesYes[n 5]Yes 3rd-party (e.g. Travis CI, Appveyor and others)[22]YesYesCommercially (GitHub Enterprise)
GitLab Yes[23]YesNoYesNoNoNo NoYesYesYesYes[24]YesNoYes[n 6]
GNOME Git Repositories No Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No
GNU Savannah Yes[25]YesYesNoNoYesYes No[26]NoNoYesNoYes?Yes
Gogs Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No No ? ? ? 3rd-party Yes Yes Yes
JavaForge Yes[27]YesYesYesNoNoNo YesNoNoYesYesYes?No
java.net/Project Kenai ?YesYesYesNoNoYes YesYesYesYesYesYes?No
Launchpad YesYesNoNoYes NoYesNoYes Yes[n 7] Yes Yes[n 8] Yes?Yes
OSDN YesYesYesYesNoYesYes YesYesNoYesNoYesYesNo
Ourproject.org ?YesYesYesNo?YesYes??????Yes
SourceForge YesYesYesYesNoYesYes YesYesYesYesNoYesYesYes
tigris.org NoYesYesYesNoNoYes YesYesYesYesNo? No longer for new projects[n 9] No
Visual Studio Online YesYesYesYesNoNoYes YesYesYesYesYesYesYesYes
Name Code review Bug tracking Web hosting Wiki Translation system Shell server Mailing List Forum Personal branch Private branch Announce Build system Team Release Binaries Self-hosting

Other features

Available version control systems

Name CVS Git Mercurial SVN Bazaar TFS Arch Perforce Fossil
Alioth Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes No ?
Assembla No Yes No Yes No No No Yes ?
Beanstalk No Yes No Yes No No No No ?
Betavine Yes No No Yes No No No ? ?
Bitbucket No Yes Yes No No No No ? ?
CodePlex No Yes Yes Yes No Yes No ? ?
Fedora Hosted No Yes Yes Yes Yes No No ? ?
Freepository No No No Yes No No No ? ?
GitHub No Yes No Partial[40] No No No ? ?
GitLab No Yes No No No No No No ?
Gna! Yes No No Yes No No Yes No ?
GNOME Git Repositories No Yes No No No No No No ?
GNU Savannah Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes[41] No Yes No ?
Gogs No Yes No No No No No No ?
java.net No Yes[42] Yes[42] Yes[42] No No No ? ?
JavaForge Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No ? ?
Launchpad Import only Yes[8][43] Import only[44] Import only Yes No No No ?
OSDN Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No ? ?
Ourproject.org Yes No No Yes No No No ? ?
OW2 Consortium Yes No No Yes No No No ? ?
SEUL.org Yes No No Yes No No No ? ?
SourceForge Yes Yes Yes Yes No longer for new projects[45]No No ? Yes
Tigris.org Yes No No Yes No No No ? ?
Name CVS Git Mercurial SVN Bazaar TFS Arch Perforce Fossil

Popularity

Name Users Projects Alexa rank (lower = more popular)
Alioth 22,731[46] 1,106[46] N/A (subdomain not tracked)
Assembla ? 526,581+[47] 10,635 as of 6 December 2015[48]
Bitbucket ? ? 1,127 as of 24 January 2016[49]
CodePlex ? 107,712[50] 2,947 as of 6 December 2015[51]
Fedora Hosted ? 411[52] ?
GitHub 12,000,000[53] 31,000,000[53][n 10] 86 as of 24 January 2016[54]
GitLab 20,000[55] 100,000+[55][n 11] 8,563 as of 21 September 2015[56]
Gna! 8,710 1,450 160,996 as of 6 December 2015[57]
GNU Savannah 67,746[58] 3,704[58] 61,543 as of 7 December 2015[59]
GNOME Git Repositories Unknown[n 12] 600+ N/A (subdomain not tracked)
Google Code Unknown[n 12] 250,000+[60] N/A (subdomain not tracked)
JavaForge ? ? 816,023 as of 4 April 2015[61]
Launchpad 2,946,697[62] 37,567[63] 5,992 as of 6 December 2015[64]
OSDN 50,871[65] 5,952[65] 16,814 as of 17 June 2015[66]
Ourproject.org Unknown[n 12] 1,411[67] N/A (subdomain not tracked)
SourceForge 3,700,000[68] 430,000[68] 291 as of 24 January 2016[69]
Tigris.org ? ? 101,435 As of December 2015[70]
Name Users Projects Alexa rank (lower = more popular)

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
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).
GNOME Git Repositories No No Yes No No Only for GNOME related projects.
mozdev Yes Yes ? No No Only for Mozilla related projects.
OCamlForge Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Only for Ocaml related projects
Name Ad-free CVS Git SVN Arch Notes

Former hosting facilities

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Anyone can submit Bug Reports without logging in.
  2. ↑ private branch limited to 5 users on free plan, see Pricing and plans — bitbucket.org
  3. ↑ Self hosted version is known as Stash and only supports Git repositories
  4. ↑ Requires one to log in to report a Bug.
  5. ↑ private branches are only available with paid plans, not with the free plan, see Plans and Pricing GitHub
  6. ↑ Has an open source Community Edition and commercial Enterprise Edition
  7. ↑ Currently only available for security vulnerability updates
  8. ↑ Ubuntu
  9. ↑ "Open Source Software Engineering". Tigris.org. Retrieved 2015-05-20.
  10. ↑ GitHub is not fundamentally organized by projects, so the count is somewhat difficult. This figure is likely to be far higher at the present.
  11. ↑ GitLab is not fundamentally organized by projects, so the count is somewhat difficult.
  12. 1 2 3 Data not available.

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  2. ↑ Sourceforge. "terms of use". says "PLEASE NOTE THAT YOU RETAIN OWNERSHIP OF ANY COPYRIGHTS, ... IN ANY CONTENT YOU SUBMIT."
  3. ↑ Github. "Github terms of service". says "We claim no intellectual property rights over the material you provide to the Service."
  4. ↑ "About". GitLab.com. Retrieved 16 August 2013.
  5. ↑ "GitLab Cloud". GitLab.com. Retrieved 10 February 2014.
  6. ↑ Step 1: Services and Requirements [Gna!]. Gna.org. Retrieved on 2015-04-01.
  7. ↑ Hosting requirements [Savannah]. Savannah.gnu.org. Retrieved on 2015-04-01.
  8. 1 2 "Launchpad Blog". Blog.launchpad.net. 2015-05-01. Retrieved 2015-05-20.
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  10. ↑ "About (SourceForge)". SourceForge. Retrieved 2013-08-25.
  11. ↑ Terms_of_Use – sitelegal. Sourceforge.net (19 October 2009). Retrieved on 2010-11-26.
  12. ↑ "About Allura". SourceForge. Retrieved 2013-08-25.
  13. ↑ "The Next SourceForge". SourceForge. Retrieved 2013-08-25.
  14. ↑ http://blogs.msdn.com/b/somasegar/archive/2012/10/31/team-foundation-service-is-released.aspx
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  17. ↑ Wildbit, LLC (2014-11-05). "Introducing: Code Review — Beanstalk". Blog.beanstalkapp.com. Retrieved 2015-05-20.
  18. ↑ — Using Mercurial Queues And Bitbucket.org
  19. ↑ Publishing a Website on Bitbucket - Bitbucket - Atlassian Documentation. Confluence.atlassian.com. Retrieved on 2013-09-21.
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  21. ↑ no file attachments, but images can be embedded GitHub Issue Tracker — GitHub
  22. 1 2 https://github.com/integrations
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  24. ↑ "Continuous Integration". GitLab. Retrieved 2015-05-20.
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  31. ↑ Jon Friedman (2013-05-30). "Subprojects: Many projects, one team; One project, many teams". Blog.assembla.com. Retrieved 2015-05-20.
  32. ↑ Titas Norkunas (2013-03-21). "Put Down Your Forks - Introducing Protected Branches". Blog.assembla.com. Retrieved 2015-05-20.
  33. ↑ "GitHub Developer". Developer.github.com. Retrieved 2015-05-20.
  34. ↑ "GitHub Pages · GitHub". Github.com. 2008-12-18. Retrieved 2015-05-20.
  35. ↑ Gist is a pastebin service operated by GitHub
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