Gitblit Features

• JGit SmartHTTP servlet
• Browser and git client authentication
• Four repository access control configurations with a Read-Only control flag
  
  
  
  • Anonymous View, Clone & Push
  
  
  • Authenticated Push
  
  
  • Authenticated Clone & Push
  
  
  • Authenticated View, Clone & Push
  
  
  • Freeze repository (i.e. deny push, make read-only)
    
• Gitweb inspired web UI
• Administrators may create, edit, rename, or delete repositories through the web UI
• Administrators may create, edit, rename, or delete users through the web UI
• Repository Owners may edit repositories through the web UI
• Git-notes support
• 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 page which enumerates all Markdown files within a repository
  
  
  • 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

Limitations

• HTTP/HTTPS are the only supported protocols
• 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
• Native Git may be needed to periodically run git-gc as JGit does not fully support the git-gc featureset.

Caveats

• Gitblit may eat your data. Use at your own risk.
• Gitblit may have security holes. Patches welcome. :)

Todo List

• Code documentation
• Unit testing

Under Consideration

• Clone remote repository feature
• Blob page improvements
  • view images
  • view other binary files (pdf, doc, etc)
• Markdown editing feature
• Stronger Ticgit read-only integration
  • activity/timeline
  • query feature with paging support
  • change history
• Ticgit write integration