Source Code Repositories as a Service

Code repositories are applications to store software source code. It adds functionality like control version, team chat, etc.

Git

Git is an open source version control system (CVS) that provides code repositories. As many code repositories as a services are based on it, it is recommended that you are familiar with its concepts.

You can read more avoid Git on this post.

List of Code Repositories as a Service

There are different companies offering Git repositories as a service. This post lists some popular solutions for code repositories.

Code repositories as a Service, it means, in the cloud:

• GitHub
• GitLab
• SourceForge
• Bitbucket
• Gitolite
• Gogs
• Gitea

GitHub

https://github.com/
GitHub is a subsidiary of Microsoft since 2018.

It is closed source.

You can read more about GitHub on this post.

GitLab

https://about.gitlab.com

It is open source for community edition.

SourceForge

https://sourceforge.net/
It was the first one to be free for open source projects.

Bitbucket

https://bitbucket.org/product
By Atlassian.

Gitolite

https://gitolite.com

It is open source.

Gogs

https://gogs.io/

It is open source.

Gitea

https://gitea.io

It is a fork of Gogs project.

It is open source.

You might be also interested in…

• Code Version Control Systems

External references

• Seth Kenlon; “5 open source alternatives to GitHub“; OpenSource.com