What is Gitly?
Gitly is an open-source, self-hosted alternative to GitHub for Git repository hosting. It provides a web interface similar to GitHub for managing public and private Git repositories, enabling features like:
- User accounts and organization/team management
- Repository browsing, cloning, pushing and pulling
- Issues and pull request tracking
- Code reviews and inline comments
- Project wikis and README files
- Release management and tagging
As an open-source GitHub alternative, Gitly allows you to host your own Git servers on your infrastructure without relying on third-party services. This gives you more control, customizability, privacy and security in managing your source code repositories.
Gitly is written in Go and works across Linux, macOS and Windows platforms. The web-based user interface provides a clean and responsive design for efficiently managing your Git repositories. Some key advantages over GitHub include unlimited private repositories in the open-source version, no restrictions on repository or organization sizes, and no third-party tracking within the interface.