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A source-code-hosting facility is a file archive and web hosting facility for source code of software, documentation, web pages, and other works, accessible either publicly or privately. They are often used by open-source software projects and other multi-developer projects to maintain revision and version history, or version control. Many repositories provide a bug tracking system, and offer release management, mailing lists, and wiki-based project documentation. Software authors generally retain their copyright when software is posted to a code hosting facilities. Wikipedia →
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- Read the overview: Comparison of source-code-hosting facilitiesA 5-minute orientation
- Pick up a classic book: The Conspirators HierarchyThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Go sideways: Forge (software)A closely related topic
- Go sideways: GiteaA closely related topic
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📚 Books worth reading
The Conspirators HierarchyJohn Coleman · 1992
A TOUR OF THE WORLDMalik Mansab Khan, Muhammad Rafique Abdul Aziz · 2025
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- Mercurial Mercurial is a distributed revision control tool for software developers. It is supported on Microsoft Windows, Linux, and other Unix-like systems, such…
- Gitorious Gitorious was an online service for hosting collaborative free and open-source software projects developed using Git for revision control. Although the…
- Bitbucket Bitbucket is a Git-based source code repository hosting service owned by Atlassian. Bitbucket offers both commercial plans and free accounts with an unlimited…
- Gitee Gitee (simplified Chinese: 码云; traditional Chinese: 碼雲; pinyin: Mǎyún) is a proprietary online forge that allows software version control using Git and…
- Magit Magit (/ˈmædʒɪt/ MA-jit or /ˈmʌɡɪt/ MUH-git) is a Git version control interface for GNU Emacs. It is written in Emacs Lisp and distributed through the…