Comparison of source-code-hosting facilities
A source-code repository is a file archive and web hosting facility for source code of software, documentation, web pages, and other works, accessible either publicly or privately. They are often used by open-source software projects and other multi-developer projects to maintain revision and version history, or version control. Many repositories provide a bug tracking system, and offer release management, mailing lists, and wiki-based project documentation. Software authors generally retain their copyright when software is posted to a code hosting facilities.
General information
Features
Version control systems
Popularity
Discontinued: 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.| Name | Ad-free | CVS | Git | SVN | Arch | Notes |
| Drupal | Only for Drupal related projects. | |||||
| freedesktop.org | Only for interoperability and shared base technology for free software desktop environments on Linux and other Unix-like operating systems, including the X Window System and cairo. | |||||
| mozdev.org | Only for Mozilla-related projects. | |||||
| Name | Ad-free | CVS | Git | SVN | Arch | Notes |
Former hosting facilities
- Alioth In 2018, Alioth has been replaced by a GitLab based solution hosted on salsa.debian.org. Alioth has been finally switched off in June 2018.
- BerliOS – abandoned in April 2014
- Betavine – abandoned somewhere in 2015.
- CodeHaus – shut down in May 2015
- CodePlex CodePlex shut down in December 2017.
- Fedora Hosted – closed in March 2017
- Gitorious – shut down in June 2015.
- Gna! Gna.org shut down in 2017.
- Google Code – closed in January 2016, all projects archived. See http://code.google.com/archive/.
- java.net Java.net and kenai.com hosting closed April 2017.
- Tigris.org - shut down in July 2020.