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]
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. Staff must approve requests for project approval, deletion, etc, which can take long time when the staff is undermanned. 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.
Phabricator
Phacility, Inc
2010
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
Hosted option provided by Phacility
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]
No
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 features are free for teams of 5 members or less [ 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
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Assembla
Yes[ 22]
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Yes[ 23]
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Bitbucket
Yes[ 24]
Yes[ a]
Yes[ 25]
Yes
No
No
No
No
Yes
Yes[ b]
No
Yes[ 26]
Yes
No[ 27]
Commercially (BitBucket Server formerly Stash)[ c]
Buddy
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes[ d]
Yes
Yes
Yes
CloudForge
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
CodePlex
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
GitHub
Yes[ 28]
Yes[ 29] [ e]
Yes[ 30]
Yes
No
No
No
No
Yes
Yes[ f]
Yes
3rd-party (e.g. Travis CI , Appveyor and others)[ 31]
Yes
Yes
Commercially (GitHub Enterprise)
GitLab
Yes[ 32]
Yes
Yes[ 33]
Yes
No
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes[ 34]
Yes
Yes[ 35]
Yes[ g]
GNU Savannah
Yes[ 36]
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
No[ 37]
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
java.net /Project Kenai
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
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[ h]
Yes
Yes[ i]
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
SourceForge
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes[ j]
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
tigris.org
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
No longer for new projects[ 38]
No
Team Foundation Server
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Visual Studio Team Services
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
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
Popularity
Name
Users
Projects
Alexa rank (lower = more popular)
Alioth
22,731 [ 46]
1,106 [ 46]
— (subdomain not tracked)
Assembla
Unknown
526,581 +[ 47]
26,366 as of 18 October 2017[update] [ 48]
Bitbucket
5,000,000 [ 49]
Unknown
696 as of 18 October 2017[update] [ 50]
GitHub
24,000,000 [ 51]
69,000,000 [ 51]
60 as of 18 October 2017[update] [ 52]
GitLab
100,000 [ 53]
546,000 [ 54] [ k]
2,422 as of 18 October 2017[update] [ 55]
GNU Savannah
77,137 [ 56]
3,825 [ 56]
50,323 as of 18 October 2017[update] [ 57]
Launchpad
3,965,288 [ 58]
40,881 [ 59]
6,480 as of 18 October 2017[update] [ 60]
OSDN
54,826 [ 61]
6,294 [ 61]
8,592 as of 18 October 2017[update] [ 62]
Ourproject.org
6,353 [ 63]
1,846 [ 63]
1,278,995 as of 18 October 2017[update] [ 64]
Phabricator
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
SourceForge
3,700,000 [ 65]
500,000 [ 65]
347 as of 18 October 2017[update] [ 66]
Tigris.org
Unknown
Unknown
115,276 as of 18 October 2017[update] [ 67]
Name
Users
Projects
Alexa rank (lower = more popular)
Discountinued: 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.
See also
Notes
^ Anyone can submit Bug Reports without logging in.
^ private branch limited to 5 users on free plan, see Pricing and plans — bitbucket.org
^ Self hosted version is known as BitBucket Server and only supports Git repositories
^ Builds are run in Docker containers
^ Requires one to log in to report a Bug.
^ private branches are only available with paid plans, not with the free plan, see Plans and Pricing GitHub
^ Has an open source Community Edition and commercial Enterprise Edition
^ Currently only available for security vulnerability updates
^ Ubuntu
^ 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 .
^ GitLab is not fundamentally organized by projects, so the count is somewhat difficult.
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^ "terms of use" . Sourceforge . PLEASE NOTE THAT YOU RETAIN OWNERSHIP OF ANY COPYRIGHTS, ... IN ANY CONTENT YOU SUBMIT.
^ "Github terms of service" . Github . We claim no intellectual property rights over the material you provide to the Service.
^ "Buddy GO - The On-Premises Git and Continuous Integration Platform" . Buddy.Works . Retrieved 2017-02-06.
^ "Shutting down CodePlex" . CodePlex . Retrieved 20 April 2017 .
^ "gov-takedowns" . GitHub . Retrieved 12 June 2016 .
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^ "Products" . GitLab.com .
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^ "Code/Git" .
^ a b "Launchpad Blog" . Blog.launchpad.net . 1 May 2015. Retrieved 20 May 2015 .
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^ "About Allura" . SourceForge . Archived from the original on 20 August 2013. Retrieved 25 August 2013 .
^ "The Next SourceForge" . SourceForge . Retrieved 25 August 2013 .
^ "About (SourceForge)" . SourceForge . Retrieved 25 August 2013 .
^ "Terms of Use" . slashdotmedia.com . SlashdotMedia. 18 February 2016. 8. Registration; Use of Secure Areas and Passwords.
^ http://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/somasegar/2012/10/31/team-foundation-service-is-released/
^ "Archived copy" . Archived from the original on 21 April 2016. Retrieved 17 May 2016 . CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link ) [failed verification ]
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^ "Get Started for Free in 60 Seconds | Assembla Plans" . Assembla.com . Retrieved 20 May 2015 .
^ — Using Mercurial Queues And Bitbucket.org Archived 28 December 2009 at the Wayback Machine
^ Publishing a Website on Bitbucket - Bitbucket - Atlassian Documentation . Confluence.atlassian.com. Retrieved on 2013-09-21.
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^ no file attachments, but images can be embedded GitHub Issue Tracker — GitHub
^ "GitHub Pages" . GitHub .
^ https://github.com/integrations
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^ Collaborating on GitHub with Subversion 路 GitHub . Github.com (2012-06-26). Retrieved on 2015-04-01.
^ Savannah Support Request, sr #106417 (24 October 2008), GNU Bazaar on Savannah , retrieved 10 December 2008 ((citation ))
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^ "Launchpad Blog" . Blog.launchpad.net . 8 July 2009. Retrieved 20 May 2015 .
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^ https://sourceforge.net/p/forge/documentation/CVS/
^ 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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^ "How popular is osdn.net?" . alexa.com . Alexa Internet . Retrieved 18 October 2017 .
^ a b "Welcome" . ourproject.org . Retrieved 18 October 2017 .
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^ a b "About" .
^ "How popular is sourceforge.net?" . alexa.com . Alexa Internet . Retrieved 18 October 2017 .
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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
Client–server
Free/open-source Proprietary
Distributed
Free/open-source Proprietary
Concepts