Gitblit devel
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Standard Features (GO/WAR)

  • JGit SmartHTTP servlet
  • Browser and git client authentication
  • Four per-repository access control configurations with a Read-Only control flag
    • anonymous Anonymous View, Clone & Push
    • push Authenticated Push
    • clone Authenticated Clone & Push
    • view Authenticated View, Clone & Push
    • freeze Freeze repository (i.e. deny push, make read-only)
  • Ability to federate with one or more other Gitblit instances
  • RSS/JSON RPC interface
  • Java/Swing Gitblit Manager tool
  • Gitweb inspired web UI
  • Groovy pre- and post- push hook scripts, per-repository or globally for all repositories
  • Email push notifications (via sendmail.groovy push script)
  • Lucene indexing of specified repository branches
  • Administrators may create, edit, rename, or delete repositories through the web UI or RPC interface
  • Administrators may create, edit, rename, or delete users through the web UI or RPC interface
  • Administrators may create, edit, rename, or delete teams through the web UI or RPC interface
  • Repository Owners may edit repositories through the web UI
  • Administrators and Repository Owners may set the default branch through the web UI or RPC interface
  • LDAP authentication and optional LDAP-controlled Team memberships
  • Gravatar integration
  • Git-notes display support
  • gh-pages display support (Jekyll is not supported)
  • Branch metrics (uses Google Charts)
  • HEAD and Branch RSS feeds
  • Blame annotations view
  • Dates can optionally be displayed using the browser's reported timezone
  • Display of Author and Committer email addresses can be disabled
  • Case-insensitive searching of commit messages, authors, or committers
  • Dynamic zip downloads feature
  • Markdown file view support
  • Syntax highlighting for popular source code types
  • Customizable regular expression substitution for commit messages (i.e. bug or code review link integration)
  • Single text file for users configuration
  • Optional utility pages
    • docs Docs page which enumerates all Markdown files within a repository
    • tickets Ticgit ticket pages (based on last MIT release bf57b032 2009-01-27)

Gitblit GO Features

  • Out-of-the-box integrated stack requiring minimal configuration
  • Automatically generates a self-signed certificate for localhost https communications
    (includes script to generate a self-signed certificate for your hostname, see setup for details)
  • Single text file for configuring server and gitblit
  • A Windows service installation script and configuration tool
  • Built-in AJP connector for Apache httpd

Limitations

  • HTTP/HTTPS are the only supported Git protocols
  • Built-in access controls are not path-based, they are repository-based.
  • Only Administrators can create, rename or delete repositories
  • Only Administrators can create, modify or delete users
  • Only Administrators can create, modify or delete teams
  • Native Git may be needed to periodically run git-gc as JGit does not fully support the git-gc featureset.

Caveats

  • Gitblit may have security holes. Patches welcome. :)