Comparison of source code hosting facilities

A source code repository is a file archive and web hosting facility where a large amount of source code, for software or for web pages, is kept, either publicly or privately. They are often used by open-source software 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]

General information

Name Manager Established Server side: all free software Client side: all-free JS code Developed or used CDE Require free software on registration Ad-free Notes
Alioth Debian Project 2003 Yes Yes FusionForge Unknown Yes Preference for Debian-related projects
Assembla Assembla, Inc 2005 No Unknown Unknown No Yes
Betavine Vodafone 2007 No Unknown Unknown No No
Bitbucket Atlassian 2008 No No Unknown No Yes Denies service to Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, Syria
Buddy Buddy, LLC. 2015 No No Unknown No Yes Cloud version free for 1 project with no limit on size. Self-hosted version free up to 10 users with Fair Source license[4] applied.
CloudForge CollabNet 2012 No Unknown Unknown No Yes
CodePlex Microsoft 2006-05 No Unknown Unknown No Yes Project must be OSS licensed. Shutting down in December 2017.[5]
GitHub GitHub, Inc 2008-04 No No Unknown No Yes List of government takedown requests[6]
GitLab GitLab B.V. 2011-09[7] No[8] Yes[9] GitLab Community Edition (CE) — free software
GitLab Enterprise Edition (EE) — proprietary		 No Yes
Gna! Unknown 2004-01 Yes Yes Savane Yes Yes Only for free software projects. Code access review[10]
GNU Savannah Savannah Administration 2001-01 Yes Yes Savane Yes Yes Project by the Free Software Foundation and projects with a GPL compatible license. Code access review[11]
Launchpad Canonical 2004 Yes No Launchpad No Yes Supports Bazaar and Git for version-controlled repository hosting. [12][13]
OSDN OSDN K.K. (Q11237954) 2002-04 Unknown Yes Unknown No No For open-source projects only.[14]
Ourproject.org Comunes Collective 2002 Yes Yes FusionForge No Yes For free software, free culture and free content projects.
OW2 Consortium OW2 Consortium Unknown Unknown No Unknown No Yes Oriented on middleware technology.
Rosetta Code Unknown 2007 Unknown Unknown Unknown Yes Yes Programming chrestomathy wiki for common algorithms
SEUL Unknown 1997-05 Unknown No Unknown No Yes
SourceForge BizX LLC 1999-11 Yes[15][16] Yes Apache Allura No No For open-source projects only.[17]
Denies service when accessed from Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, Syria[18]
Tigris.org (community) 2000 Unknown No Unknown No No Restricted to collaborative software development tools. Tigris.org is no longer accepting new project proposals.
Team Foundation Server Microsoft 2012-2005[19] Unknown No Unknown No Yes
Visual Studio Team Services Microsoft 2012[20] Yes No Since IDE Visual Studio 2012 and even Community Edition 2015 fully integrated with Team Services. Also Team Services has Web Interface (CDE). No Yes Most of functions and features are absolute free for teams, which consists no more than 5 members [21]
Name Manager Established Server side: all free software Client side: all-free JS code Developed or used CDE Require free software on registration Ad-free Notes

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 UnknownYes
Assembla Yes[22]YesYesYesYes NoNoNoYes Yes[23] YesYesYesUnknownNo
Bitbucket Yes[24] Yes[lower-alpha 1] Yes[25] YesNoNoNoNoYes Yes[lower-alpha 2] NoYes[26]Yes No[27] Commercially (BitBucket Server formerly Stash)[lower-alpha 3]
Buddy YesYesNoNoNoNoYesYes YesYesYesYes[lower-alpha 4]YesYesYes
CloudForge Unknown Yes Yes YesNoNoNoNoUnknown Unknown UnknownUnknownUnknownUnknownNo
CodePlex NoYesNoYesNoNoYes YesNoNoNoNoNoYesNo
GitHub Yes[28] Yes[29][lower-alpha 5] Yes[30]YesNoNoNoNoYesYes[lower-alpha 6]Yes 3rd-party (e.g. Travis CI, Appveyor and others)[31]YesYesCommercially (GitHub Enterprise)
GitLab Yes[32]YesYes[33]YesNoNoNo NoYesYesYesYes[34]Yes Yes[35] Yes[lower-alpha 7]
GNU Savannah Yes[36]YesYesNoNoYesYes No[37]NoNoYesNoYesUnknownYes
java.net/Project Kenai UnknownYesYesYesNoNoYes YesYesYesYesYesYesUnknownNo
Kallithea YesNoYesNoNoUnknownNo NoYesYesNoNoYesYesYes
Launchpad YesYesNoNoYes NoYesNoYes Yes[lower-alpha 8] Yes Yes[lower-alpha 9] YesUnknownYes
OSDN YesYesYesYesNoYesYes YesYesNoYesNoYesYesNo
Ourproject.org UnknownYesYesYesNoUnknownYesYesUnknownUnknownUnknownUnknownUnknownUnknownYes
SourceForge YesYesYesYesNoYesYesYesYes Yes[lower-alpha 10] YesNoYesYesYes
tigris.org NoYesYesYesNoNoYes YesYesYesYesNoUnknown No longer for new projects[38] No
Team Foundation Server YesYesYesYesNoNoYes YesYesYesYesYesYesYesYes
Visual Studio Team Services 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

Version control systems

Name CVS Git Hg SVN BZR TFS Arch Perforce Fossil
Alioth Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes No No
Assembla No Yes No Yes No No No Yes No
Betavine Yes No No Yes No No No Unknown Unknown
Bitbucket No Yes Yes No No No No No No
Buddy No Yes No No No No No No No
CloudForge No Yes No Yes No No No No No
CodePlex No Yes Yes Yes No Yes No No No
GitHub No Yes No Partial[39] No No No No No
GitLab No Yes No No No No No No No
Gna! Yes No No Yes No No Yes No No
GNU Savannah Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes[40] No Yes No No
java.net No Yes[41] Yes[41] Yes[41] No No No No No
Kallithea No Yes Yes No No No No No No
Launchpad Import only Yes[13][42] Import only[43] Import only Yes No No No Unknown
OSDN Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No Unknown Unknown
Ourproject.org Yes No No Yes No No No Unknown Unknown
OW2 Consortium Yes No No Yes No No No Unknown Unknown
SEUL.org Yes No No Yes No No No Unknown Unknown
SourceForge Dropped[44] Yes Yes Yes Dropped[45]No No Unknown Yes
Tigris.org Yes No No Yes No No No Unknown Unknown
Name CVS Git Hg SVN BZR 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 Unknown 526,581+[47] 12,547 as of 22 June 2016[48]
Bitbucket 6,000,000[49] Unknown 834 as of 22 June 2016[50]
CodePlex Unknown 107,712[51] 2,689 as of 22 June 2016[52]
GitHub 15,000,000[53] 38,000,000[53][lower-alpha 11] 53 as of 19 August 2016[54]
GitLab 100,000[55] 546,000[56][lower-alpha 12] 4,465 as of 22 June 2016[57]
Gna! 8,710 1,450 147,570 as of 22 June 2016[58]
GNU Savannah 70,102[59] 3,743[59] 51,074 as of 22 June 2016[60]
Google Code Unknown[lower-alpha 13] 250,000+[61] N/A (subdomain not tracked)
Launchpad 2,946,697[62] 37,567[63] 4,985 as of 22 June 2016[64]
OSDN 54,236[65] 6,211[65] 7,188 as of 22 May 2017[66]
Ourproject.org Unknown[lower-alpha 13] 1,411[67] N/A (subdomain not tracked)
SourceForge 3,700,000[68] 430,000[68] 320 as of 22 June 2016[69]
Tigris.org Unknown Unknown 96,848 as of 22 June 2016[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).
mozdev.org Yes Yes Unknown No No Only for Mozilla-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 BitBucket Server and only supports Git repositories
  4. ↑ Builds are run in Docker containers
  5. ↑ Requires one to log in to report a Bug.
  6. ↑ private branches are only available with paid plans, not with the free plan, see Plans and Pricing GitHub
  7. ↑ Has an open source Community 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. ↑ GitHub is not fundamentally organized by projects, so the count is somewhat difficult. This figure is likely to be far higher at the present.
  12. ↑ GitLab is not fundamentally organized by projects, so the count is somewhat difficult.
  13. 1 2 Data not available.

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  3. ↑ "Github terms of service". Github. We claim no intellectual property rights over the material you provide to the Service.
  4. ↑ "Buddy GO - The On-Premises Git and Continuous Integration Platform". Buddy.Works. Retrieved 2017-02-06.
  5. ↑ "Shutting down CodePlex". CodePlex. Retrieved 2017-04-20.
  6. ↑ "gov-takedowns". GitHub. Retrieved 2016-06-12.
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  8. ↑ "Products". GitLab.com.
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  13. 1 2 "Launchpad Blog". Blog.launchpad.net. 2015-05-01. Retrieved 2015-05-20.
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  15. ↑ "About Allura". SourceForge. Retrieved 2013-08-25.
  16. ↑ "The Next SourceForge". SourceForge. Retrieved 2013-08-25.
  17. ↑ "About (SourceForge)". SourceForge. Retrieved 2013-08-25.
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  20. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 21 April 2016. Retrieved 17 May 2016.
  21. ↑ "Visual Studio Team Services Pricing". www.visualstudio.com. Retrieved 2016-07-27.
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  27. ↑ Issue #11404 - Bitbucket equivalent of GitHub Releases? (BB-13572)
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  29. ↑ no file attachments, but images can be embedded GitHub Issue Tracker — GitHub
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  31. ↑ https://github.com/integrations
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  35. ↑ "GitLab 8.2 released". GitLab. 22 November 2015. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
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  38. ↑ "Open Source Software Engineering". Tigris.org. Archived from the original on 14 July 2013. Retrieved 2015-05-20.
  39. ↑ Collaborating on GitHub with Subversion 路 GitHub. Github.com (2012-06-26). Retrieved on 2015-04-01.
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  45. ↑ 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 (2013-07-01).
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  51. ↑
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  58. ↑ "How popular is gna.org?". alexa.com. Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2016-06-22.
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