Open Source Self-Hosted Gitolite Alternatives

Gitolite is not available as a self-hosted solution but there are plenty of alternatives for power users and business that want to host a solution on-premise. The best open source Self-Hosted alternative is GitLab. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to Gitolite and 15 are open source and available as a self-hosted solution so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source Self-Hosted alternatives to Gitolite are Forgejo, Gitea, Gogs and GitBucket.

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  1. GitLab icon
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    Provides a robust platform for on-premise or hosted Git repository management, integrating seamlessly with various dev tools, facilitating efficient workflow through offerings like issue tracking, code reviews, continuous integration, CI/CD pipelines, and option for unlimited private repositories.

    134 GitLab alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
    • Online
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
    • Ruby
    • Cloudron
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  2. Forgejo icon
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    Beyond coding. We forge. Forgejo is a self-hosted lightweight software forge. Easy to install and low maintenance, it just does the job.

    63 Forgejo alternatives

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    • Self-Hosted
    • Go (Programming Language)
    • Cloudron
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  3. Gitea icon
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    Private, Fast, Reliable DevOps Platform. A self-hosted DevOps platform that gives teams and developers high-efficiency, easy-to-run operations from planning to production. Gitea is a fork of Gogs.

    57 Gitea alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
    • Raspberry Pi
    • Cloudron
    • Chocolatey
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  4. Gogs icon
     142 likes

    The easiest, fastest, and most painless way of setting up a self-hosted Git service. With Go, this can be done with an independent binary distribution across ALL platforms that Go supports, including Linux, Mac OS X, Windows and ARM.

    52 Gogs alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Go (Programming Language)
    • Cloudron
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  5. GitBucket icon
     54 likes

    GitBucket is the easily installable open-source GitHub clone written with Scala.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Scala
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  6.  18 likes

    A hyperfast web frontend for git repositories written in C.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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  7. GNU Savannah icon
     4 likes

    GNU Savannah is a project of the Free Software Foundation, which serves as a collaborative software development management system for free Software projects.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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  8. ForgeFed icon
     3 likes

    ForgeFed (formerly GitPub) is a decentralized federation protocol based on the W3C's ActivityPub, which extends ActivityStream 2.0. It provides a server to server API for pull request, forking and subscription of repositories provided by Git web services (services like...

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    • Self-Hosted
    • Git
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  9. GitList icon
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    GitList allows you to browse repositories using your favorite browser, viewing files under different revisions, commit history and diffs. GitList is free and open source software, written in PHP, on top of Silex and the Twig template engine.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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  10. Pagure icon
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    A Git center project hosting with bug reporting tools.

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    • Self-Hosted
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  11. Automatic, private, and free. Own your code history forever. Preserve issues, PRs, releases, and wiki in your own Gitea server.

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    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
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