GitLab

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.

Bitbucket

bitbucket.org

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

Gitea

go-gitea/gitea

Lightweight self-hosted Git service in a single Go binary, with issues, PRs, packages and Actions.

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.