Public access

So, who hosts repositories for public access?

  • Github: https://github.com
  • Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org
  • CodePlex: http://www.codeplex.com/
  • SourceForge: https://sourceforge.net/
  • LaunchPad: https://launchpad.net/
  • Savannah: http://savannah.gnu.org/
  • Gna: http://gna.org/
  • Gitlab: http://gitlab.com
  • Apache Software Foundation: https://www.apache.org/dev/version-control.html
  • repo.or.cz: http://repo.or.cz/
  • FusionForge: https://alioth.debian.org/

While not a host itself, Blackduck Open Hub tracks many open source projects, with pointers to their repositories.

  • Blackduck Open Hub: https://www.openhub.net/

If Blackduck’s tracked repos match the world at large, then we are at 45% Subversion, 41% Git, 8% CVS, 2% Mercurial, 1% Bazaar, 3% other. Since Perforce or Team Foundation are not mentioned at all, this means that there is some difference between the Blackduck open-source world and the entire world of developers. Separate stats I saw indicated that Team Foundation is at about 10% of source control users.

CodePlex

Slow to browse, and the UI is a little lame by modern standards. I think it’s mostly dead, because the last blog post on the site is from October 13 2013. I didn’t find any “we are going away” post but they must be going away. And I see people still using it, so hmm.

CodePlex has Subversion repositories on it, e.g. https://vstortoise.svn.codeplex.com/svn. But I think you have to guess where they are, you can’t just easily browse just Subversion repositories. Don’t think there’s an API either.

Sourceforge

Still around, and getting disreputable. Sourceforge I think is only Subversion, e.g. svn checkout https://svn.code.sf.net/p/doublecmd/code/trunk doublecmd-code

From the past

These are the big players of the past that shut down (largely because Github won). Some still run in read-only mode:

  • Google Code: https://code.google.com (archived at https://code.google.com/archive/)
  • Gitorious: https://gitorious.org/ (migrating to Gitlab)

Hosted providers

There are also hosted providers that will host your repositories, but I don’t think there is public access

  • Assembla: https://assembla.com
  • ProjectLocker: https://www.projectlocker.com/
  • XP-Dev.com: https://xp-dev.com/
  • SVNRepository.com: http://svnrepository.com/
  • SlikSVN: https://sliksvn.com
  • CloudForge: http://www.cloudforge.com/
  • Codebase: https://www.codebasehq.com/
  • repositoryhosting.com: http://repositoryhosting.com/
  • Unfuddle: https://unfuddle.com/
  • Beanstalk: http://beanstalkapp.com/
  • Deveo: https://deveo.com/
  • FogBugz Dev hub: https://www.fogcreek.com/fogbugz/devhub
  • Planio: https://plan.io/subversion-hosting-and-git-hosting/
  • RhodeCode: https://rhodecode.com/

What I was reading