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Top 23 Git Open-Source Projects
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AppSignal
Monitoring that respects your time & budget. APM, error tracking, and dashboards for modern web apps. Ten-minute setup, transparent flat pricing, and support from engineers who actually use the product.
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devops-exercises
Linux, Jenkins, AWS, SRE, Prometheus, Docker, Python, Ansible, Git, Kubernetes, Terraform, OpenStack, SQL, NoSQL, Azure, GCP, DNS, Elastic, Network, Virtualization. DevOps Interview Questions
Project mention: 10 GitHub Repositories That Will Actually Teach You DevOps in 2026 | dev.to | 2026-05-05github.com/bregman-arie/devops-exercises. 82k stars. Maintained by Arie Bregman, ex-Red Hat.
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Lazygit[0] is ideal for quickly selecting files or lines you want to include in your commit. There are probably countless others. And `--patch` is also not that hard.
[0] https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit
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But for reading code, scripts, configs, Markdown, YAML, JSON, or anything where your eyes are expected to survive the experience, bat is much nicer.
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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
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SaaSHub
SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives
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So now choosing free git server from a vary short list of options. Bonobo Gogs vs Gitea vs Gitlab.
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Full disclosure, since you're on Bruno's blog: this is where we tell you about Bruno. We'll keep it factual.
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Project mention: Microsoft y GitHub lanzan cursos gratuitos de IA y ciencia de datos | dev.to | 2026-09-17
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Project mention: File Labs alternatives - Files and doublecmd | libhunt.com/r/file-labs | 2026-10-05
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logseq
A local-first, non-linear, outliner notebook for organizing and sharing your personal knowledge base. Use it to organize your todo list, to write your journals, or to record your unique life.
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harness
Harness Open Source is an end-to-end developer platform with Source Control Management, CI/CD Pipelines, Hosted Developer Environments, and Artifact Registries. (by harness)
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Project mention: AI coding agents: everyone harnesses the agent's loop. Here's the human's. | dev.to | 2026-07-17
Execution and harnessed, productized enforcement for builds. This corner is real and mature: Husky, Lefthook, pre-commit, Trunk, GitHub branch protection, on top of the underlying primitives (git, Claude Code hooks, CI). These don't hope your code is clean. They refuse the commit, fail the build, block the merge until it is. Enforcement isn't exotic. It's a solved, shipping product category.
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Many diff tools, such as delta (https://github.com/dandavison/delta) and the ones built into VS Code and IDEs by JetBrains, can configured to highlight changes within each line (by word) and ignore changes to whitespace. Those features save me a lot of time when I review diffs that include indentation changes or variable renames.
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Git's reflog will save your commits. It will not save you from the command you ran on them. That gap — undo the operation, not just the commit — is the entire argument for Jujutsu, and after reading the project's record rather than its marketing, the argument holds up better than its skeptics think.
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# Install (macOS) brew install gitleaks # Install (Linux) curl -sSL https://github.com/gitleaks/gitleaks/releases/latest/download/gitleaks_linux_x64.tar.gz | tar -xz sudo mv gitleaks /usr/local/bin/ # Scan full git history of the current repo gitleaks detect --source . --verbose # Write a JSON report gitleaks detect --source . --report-path gitleaks-report.json --report-format json
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Project mention: GitBook: The open source front end for GitBook doc sites | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-07-27
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Wiki.js is a modern wiki platform built with Node.js and Vue.js. It uses PostgreSQL for storage, supports multiple editor types (Markdown, WYSIWYG, HTML), and integrates with Git for version-controlled documentation. Current stable version is 2.5. Wiki.js site
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I'm the CEO of a company that's focused on version control for structured data ie. SQL tables and JSON documents. We share the "version control for everything" vision and think an agentic world needs it.
https://www.dolthub.com/
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Project mention: Ask HN: New clean macOS install. Must-have apps? Best browser? | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-06-23
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SaaSHub
SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives
NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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File Labs alternatives - Files and doublecmd
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Show HN: ScopeLock – Autonomous Git scope-creep auditor and UCC 2-209 engine
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Dear User, email is here to stay
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An Obsidian + Git workflow for solo developers
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Jujutsu vs Git: the Undo Button Git Never Had
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OpenGit Composer VS vscode-gitlens - a user suggested alternative
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Git projects? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | gitignore | 176,014 |
| 2 | 30-seconds-of-code | 129,316 |
| 3 | devops-exercises | 84,731 |
| 4 | lazygit | 82,881 |
| 5 | bat | 60,668 |
| 6 | Gitea | 58,260 |
| 7 | github-cheat-sheet | 57,895 |
| 8 | Gogs | 47,854 |
| 9 | bruno | 47,334 |
| 10 | cli | 46,533 |
| 11 | Files | 45,819 |
| 12 | logseq | 45,105 |
| 13 | harness | 38,479 |
| 14 | husky | 35,336 |
| 15 | delta | 32,414 |
| 16 | jj | 31,860 |
| 17 | gitleaks | 29,633 |
| 18 | gitbook | 29,057 |
| 19 | Wiki.js | 28,998 |
| 20 | dolt | 24,569 |
| 21 | oh-my-posh | 23,529 |
| 22 | hub | 22,953 |
| 23 | gitui | 22,545 |
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