ForgeFed Alternatives

ForgeFed is described as '(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' and is an app in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to ForgeFed for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, Self-Hosted, Linux, Mac and Windows apps. The best ForgeFed alternative is GitHub, which is free. Other great apps like ForgeFed are GitLab, Codeberg, Gitea and SourceForge.

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  1. Host open-source software projects using Subversion or Mercurial for revision control. Google Code also includes a wiki for documentation, issue tracking and file download feature. It is free for Open Source projects that are licensed under one of nine licenses (Apache...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Online
     
  2. GitPrep icon
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    GitPrep is a GitHub clone. You can install portable Github system into Unix/Linux. You can create users and repositories without limitation. This is free software.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Perl
     
  3. RhodeCode icon
     25 likes

    Fast and powerful management tool for SVN, Mercurial, and GIT with a built in push/pull server and full text search and code-review. It works on http/https and has a built in permission/authentication system with the ability to authenticate via LDAP or ActiveDirectory.

    Cost / License

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    • Self-Hosted
    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  4. cgit icon
     16 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
     
  5. Git Disroot icon
     6 likes

    Gitea (Git with a cup of tea) is a painless self-hosted Git service written in Go

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
     
  6. Gitweb icon
     23 likes

    Gitweb is a Git web interface. It is written in Perl and can be used as a CGI script, or as a mod_perl legacy script (run by ModPerl::Registry handler). It allows browsing a git repository (or a set of git repositories) using a web browser.

    75 Gitweb alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Perl
     
  7. Apache Allura icon
     15 likes

    Apache Allura is an open source implementation of a software forge, a web site that manages source code repositories, bug reports, discussions, wiki pages, blogs, and more for any number of individual projects.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     
  8. Kallithea icon
     34 likes

    Kallithea, a free software source code management system supporting two leading version control systems, Mercurial and Git.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Python
     
  9. 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
     
  10. Gitblit icon
     20 likes

    Gitblit is an open-source, pure Java stack for managing, viewing, and serving Git repositories.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
  11. Gitdab icon
     4 likes

    A git hosting provider based on Forgejo, previously Gitea.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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