A source-code-hosting facility (also known as

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software) is a file archive and web hosting facility for

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of software, documentation,

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s, and other works, accessible either publicly or privately. They are often used by

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projects and other multi-developer projects to maintain revision and version history, or

version control Version control (also known as revision control, source control, and source code management) is the software engineering practice of controlling, organizing, and tracking different versions in history of computer files; primarily source code t ...

. Many repositories provide a

bug tracking system Tracking system or defect tracking system is a software application that keeps track of reported software bugs in software development projects. It may be regarded as a type of issue tracking system. Many bug tracking systems, such as those used ...

, and offer release management,

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s, and

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-based project documentation. Software authors generally retain their copyright when software is posted to a code hosting facilities.

General information

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GitHub GitHub () is a Proprietary software, proprietary developer platform that allows developers to create, store, manage, and share their code. It uses Git to provide distributed version control and GitHub itself provides access control, bug trackin ...

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GitLab GitLab is a software forge primarily developed by GitLab Inc. It is available as a community edition and a commercial edition. History GitLab was created in 2011 by Ukrainian programmer Dmitriy Zaporozhets as a side project written in Rub ...

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Perforce Software Perforce Software, Inc. is an American developer of software used for developing and running applications, including version control software, web-based repository management, developer collaboration, application lifecycle management, web applica ...

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SourceForge SourceForge is a web service founded by Geoffrey B. Jeffery, Tim Perdue, and Drew Streib in November 1999. SourceForge provides a centralized software discovery platform, including an online platform for managing and hosting open-source soft ...

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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.

Former hosting facilities

* Alioth (Debian) – In 2018, Alioth has been replaced by a GitLab based solution hosted o
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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 – shut down in December 2017. * Fedora Hosted – closed in March 2017 * Gitorious – shut down in June 2015. * Gna! – 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. * Phabricator – wound down operations 1 June 2021, all projects continued to be hosted with very limited support after 31 August 2021. * Tigris.org – shut down in July 2020. * Mozdev.org - shut down in July 2020.

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