Personally, I love GitHub. And I try to promote it as much as I can, and I’ve even got a few organizations setup their repositories there. However, I am still asked once in a while for a good alternative. These work either for people who don’t have the money to pay for GitHub’s private repositories, or who are required to keep their code in-house.
Here are a few alternatives to the GitHub hosting service. There are two types of software: locally installed software and hosted. These are decent for smaller companies that don’t have the budget for licensing a hosted service.
Free Local Install
- gitlabhq.com – this project looks really good, with new releases every month.
- gitorious – solid, free alternative to GitHub.
Free Hosted
- gitorious.org – open source projects are free, like github.
- bitbucket – unlimited free private repositories for up to 5 users. The pricing model is similar to the other Atlassian products.
Also, have a look at Sourcegraph, which you can host yourself or pay for a hosted service.
One good alternative is also Deveo. It’s only for private repositories and has no repository, user or project limits. You can check how it compares to GitHub from the link https://deveo.com/github-alternative/
(I’m affiliated with Deveo)
Thanks Ilmari, I’ll check it out.