Gitea

Git

git/git

Popular

Distributed version control system; the universal standard for tracking source code.

GitHub

github.com

Popular

Dominant code hosting platform with pull requests, Actions CI, Copilot, packages and security scanning.

GitLab

gitlabhq/gitlabhq

Popular

All-in-one DevSecOps platform with Git hosting, built-in CI/CD and a popular self-managed edition.

Bitbucket

bitbucket.org

Atlassian's Git hosting service, chosen mainly by teams standardized on Jira and Confluence.

Forgejo

forgejo.org

Rising

Community-governed, copyleft fork of Gitea that powers Codeberg; a self-hosted forge with federation work.

Git LFS

git-lfs/git-lfs

Git extension that stores large binary files outside the repo; common in game dev, ML and design assets.

Jujutsu

jj-vcs/jj

Trending

Git-compatible VCS (jj) with first-class undo, auto-committed working copy and painless rebasing of stacks.

Mercurial

mercurial-scm.org

Legacy

Distributed VCS (hg) once rivaling Git; still used in some large orgs but rarely chosen for new projects.

Gogs

gogs/gogs

Lightweight self-hosted Git service in a single Go binary; the project Gitea was originally forked from.