Bonobo Git Server vs Gitolite

Bonobo Git Server

Bonobo Git Server for Windows is a web application you can install on your IIS and easily manage and connect to your git repositories. Go to homepage for release and more info. (by jakubgarfield)

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Gitolite

Hosting git repositories -- Gitolite allows you to setup git hosting on a central server, with very fine-grained access control and many (many!) more powerful features. (by sitaramc)

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Bonobo Git Server		Gitolite
	Project
5	Mentions	3
1,786	Stars	8,316
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	4.2
4 months ago	Latest Commit	about 1 month ago
C#	Language	Perl
MIT License	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

Bonobo Git Server

Posts with mentions or reviews of Bonobo Git Server. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-02.

Does anyone know a good fit server with a webgui that can run on a Windows server?
1 project | /r/sysadmin | 7 Feb 2023
Phabricator replacement? | Or OpenProject alternative? | issue tracking/code
53 projects | /r/selfhosted | 2 Aug 2022

Bonobo Git Server - git server, I will need this (or similar) but no bug tracking
It appears 343 wasn't telling the truth about why their Juneteenth emblem had a racist name
1 project | /r/halo | 15 Jun 2022

Look, Bonobo has more than one term, it's not always about the animal. Bonobo is also the name of a git server and a framework for Python
Bonobo Git Server – Simple Git Server for Windows
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Apr 2022
What is a piracy-friendly way to host Git repositories containing links to pirate sites?
2 projects | /r/Piracy | 1 Jun 2021

You could host it yourself. I run my own git-server using Bonobo Git Server, but there are lots of other self-hosting options. You can check out the wiki at r/selfhosted to see whats good for you

Gitolite

Posts with mentions or reviews of Gitolite. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-11.

Incident with Issues and Pull Requests
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 May 2023

Maybe something like gitolite then?
https://github.com/sitaramc/gitolite
I've not used it personally though, so no idea how well it works in practise.
Whatever happened to SHA-256 support in Git?
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Jun 2022
mygit: simple self-hosted git
2 projects | /r/rust | 18 Jul 2021

Is this going to (effectively) be a port of https://github.com/sitaramc/gitolite ?

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Bonobo Git Server and Gitolite you can also consider the following projects:

Gitea - Git with a cup of tea! Painless self-hosted all-in-one software development service, including Git hosting, code review, team collaboration, package registry and CI/CD

Gogs - Gogs is a painless self-hosted Git service

GitExtensions - Git Extensions is a standalone UI tool for managing git repositories. It also integrates with Windows Explorer and Microsoft Visual Studio (2015/2017/2019).

Git WebUI - A standalone local web based user interface for git repositories

Apache Bloodhound - Mirror of Apache Bloodhound

goodwork - Self hosted project management and collaboration tool powered by TALL stack

Gitblit - pure java git solution

Redmine - Mirror of redmine code source - Official Subversion repository is at https://svn.redmine.org/redmine - contact: @vividtone or maeda (at) farend (dot) jp

Git Credential Manager for Windows

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