Concurrent Versions System Alternatives

Git is a free and open source distributed version-control system for tracking changes in source code during software development. The tool is created by Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, and is used by virtually every software project today. With Git, developer can track changes in any sets of files in a project and coordinate the team to develop in a non-linear workflow to achieve maximum efficiency.

Apache Subversion is a versioning and revision control system (VCS) developed and maintained by the Apache Software Foundation. With Apache Subversion software developers can manage, document and organize changes to files and directories of software projects. With Subversion teams of developers can maintain the current and historical versions of a project source code with ease.

GitHub is a platform that provides hosting for software development version control for open source and closed source projects. The platform utilize the revision control system Git, and build services around this open-source technology. With GitHub developers and teams can collaborate on software projects and build, host, and promote source code of their own open-source projects. GitHub itself is closed-source and was acquired by Microsoft in 2018 for US$7.5 billion.

A web-based tool for DevOps lifecycle management and source code hosing. GitLab, much like GitHub use the open-source technology Git for repository management and code reversion. On top of that GitLab provide extra services like issue-tracking, wiki and CI/CD pipelines for code deployment. The main difference between GitLab and GitHub is that GitLab is open-source and the whole platform can be self-hosted on your own server. GitLab also provides the same hosted repository solutions provided by GitHub.

..

Gitea is a free and open-source software package for hosting software development version control using Git The software is written in Go and is a community managed fork of Gogs, released under the MIT license. With Gitea you can host your very own software project collaboration platform that can handle bug tracking, wikis, code review and team communication.

GitBucket is a free and open-source Git platform built on the JVM. GitBucket is written in Scala and released under the Apache License Version 2.0.

Unleash the power of Git with GitKraken, the free Git GUI for Windows, Mac & Linux. With GitKraken you can easily work with repositories hosted on any of these sites. Clone, add remotes, and create/open pull requests without ever leaving the application. GitKraken is an open-source project released as two versions, GitKraken Free and GitKraken Pro. The free version works with major platforms like GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket while providing extra features in the pro version to work with GitHub Enterprise, GitLab Self-Managed, Bitbucket Server, and Azure DevOps (VSTS).

Gitpod provides one-click, ready-to-code development environments for GitHub.