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 14 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 Gitea, Forgejo, 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.

    111 GitLab alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Online
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
    • Ruby
    • Cloudron
     
  2. Gitea icon
     174 likes

    Gitea is a fork of Gogs, lightweight code hosting solution written in Go and published under the MIT license.

    45 Gitea alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
    • Raspberry Pi
    • Cloudron
    • Chocolatey
     
  3. Gogs icon
     136 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.

    42 Gogs alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Go (Programming Language)
    • Cloudron
     
  4. cgit icon
     16 likes

    A hyperfast web frontend for git repositories written in C.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  5. 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

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  6. 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...

    37 ForgeFed alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Git
     
  7. GitList icon
     12 likes

    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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
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    GitList vs Gitolite Comments
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    gitlist is a repository browser, and does not handle access control or authentication like gitolite.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • GitList is Free and Open SourceGitolite is also Free and Open Source
  8. Pagure icon
     3 likes

    A Git center project hosting with bug reporting tools.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  9. Gitness icon
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    Gitness is an Open Source developer platform with Source Control management, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
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