Gitorious is a Web site hosting collaborative open source

Open source

The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...

 projects using the Git

Git (software)

Git is a distributed revision control system with an emphasis on speed. Git was initially designed and developed by Linus Torvalds for Linux kernel development. Every Git working directory is a full-fledged repository with complete history and full revision tracking capabilities, not dependent on...

 distributed revision control

Distributed revision control

A distributed revision control system , distributed version control or decentralized version control keeps track of software revisions and allows many developers to work on a given project without necessarily being connected to a common network.-Distributed vs...

 system. The name also refers to the server software that the Web site is developed and hosted on. According to the Git User's Survey in 2010, Gitorious is the second most popular web interface for Git, with 11.8% of respondents indicating they use it, behind 77.1% using GitHub

Github

GitHub is a web-based hosting service for software development projects that use the Git revision control system. GitHub offers both commercial plans and free accounts for open source projects...

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Features

In addition to source code hosting, Gitorious provides projects with wikis, a web interface for merge requests and code reviews, and activity timelines for projects and developers.

External links

• Gitorious - Gitorious homepage
• git-scm.com tools - Gitorious on git-scm.com