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

    GitLab

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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 (Subscription)
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
    • Online
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
    • Ruby
    • Cloudron
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    • GitLab is the most popular Linux & Self-Hosted alternative to Gitolite.

    • GitLab is the most popular Open Source alternative to Gitolite.

    • GitLab is Freemium and Open SourceGitolite is Free and Open Source
    • GitLab is Security-focusedGitolite is not according to our users
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    Gogs

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    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)

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Go (Programming Language)
    • Cloudron
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    GNU Savannah

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    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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    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
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    ForgeFed

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    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...

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Git
     
  12. GitList icon

    GitList

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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

    Application type

    Platforms

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

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    • GitList is Free and Open SourceGitolite is also Free and Open Source
  13. Pagure icon

    Pagure

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    A Git center project hosting with bug reporting tools.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
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  14. Gitness icon

    Gitness

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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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