Gitorious
Website type | collaborative code forge |
|---|---|
| Available in | English |
| Dissolved | June 2015 |
| Successor | GitLab |
| Website | gitorious |
| Registration | Optional |
| Launched | January 2008 |
| Current status | Offline |
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| Developers | GitLab, Powow AS, Gitorious AS |
| Final release | 3.2
/ December 4, 2014 |
| Written in | Ruby |
| Operating system | Linux |
| Available in | English |
| Type | Project management software |
| License | GNU Affero General Public License 3 |
| Website | gitorious |
| Repository | github |
Gitorious was an online service for hosting collaborative free and open-source software projects developed using Git for revision control. Although the source code powering it was itself freely available to be downloaded and installed and remains so, it was written primarily to be the basis for the website at gitorious.org, until the acquisition of Gitorious by GitLab in 2015.
According to the Git User's Survey, Gitorious was the second most popular hosting service for Git in 2011, with 11.7% of respondents indicating they used it, behind 87.5% using GitHub. On 3 March 2015, Gitorious was acquired by GitLab, who announced service through gitorious.org would be discontinued on 1 June 2015 and encouraged Gitorious users to make use of its import tools to migrate projects to GitLab.