RocketGit

Git hosting solutions comparison

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Legal	RocketGit	Gitlab CE	GitHub	gitolite	Pagure.io	Gogs.io	Phabricator
License ?	Affero GPLv3+	MIT	Proprietary	GPLv2	GPLv2 or later	MIT	Apache 2.0
Business model	Support and sponsors	Open core	Monthly fee	n/a	n/a	n/a	?
Developers keep copyright when contributing ?	Yes	Yes?	n/a	Yes	Yes	Yes?	?
GNU Ethical Repository Criteria Evaluations (link)	A (-A4, +A+0, +A+1, +A+2, +A+5)	C	F	?	A?	?	?

Features	RocketGit	Gitlab CE	GitHub	gitolite	Pagure.io	Gogs.io	Phabricator
Git SHA-256 support	Yes	?	?	?	?	?	?
Easy installation ?	Yes	Yes	Yes?	Yes	Yes	Yes	?
SELinux policy ?	Yes	No	?	not needed	?	?	?
Distro friendly ?	Yes	No (see 1)	No (see 1)	Yes	Yes?	Yes?	?
Bug tracker	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	?	Yes
CLI commands (SSH) ?	Yes	No	?	?	?	?	?
API	Yes	Yes	Yes	?	Yes	?	Yes
Anonymous push ?	Yes	No	No	No?	No	?	?
Languages available (i18n)	1	?	?	1	?	14	?
IPv6	Yes	Yes	?	Yes	Yes	?	?
Submodules ?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Usable with lynx	Yes	Yes	Yes	n/a	Yes	Yes	?
SSH OTP 2fa (two-factor authentication)	Yes	No ?	Yes (see 2)	Yes	No	?	?
Web OTP 2fa (two-factor authentication)	Yes	Yes	Yes	?	?	?	?
Web Hooks	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	?
Web Hooks - provide client certs	Yes	No	No	n/a	?	No	?
Web Hooks - authenticate server (CA cert)	Yes	No	No	n/a	?	No	?
OpenSSH FIDO2 basic support	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	?	?	?
OpenSSH FIDO2 touch enforcing	Yes	No	?	?	?	?	?
OpenSSH FIDO2 verify-required enforcing	Yes	?	?	?	?	?	?
OpenSSH AuthorizedKeysCommand ?	Yes	Yes	Yes	?	No	?	?
OpenSSH filter by key type and bits ?	Yes	Yes	?	No	No	Yes	?
Detailed info about the SSH keys ?	Yes	No	?	No	No	?	?
LDAP user authentication	Yes	Yes	?	No	No	Yes	?
LDAP groups	No	Yes	?	?	?	?	?
PAM user authentication	No	?	?	?	?	Yes	?
Git LFS	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	?
Lock repo with a message	Yes	?	?	?	?	?	?
Continuous integration	Yes	Yes	?	?	?	?	?
Code review	No	Yes	Yes	?	?	?	Yes
Wiki	No	Yes	Yes	n/a	?	?	?
User custom pages	No	Yes	Yes	n/a	?	?	?
Artifacts	Yes	Yes	Yes	?	?	?	?
Auto-building .rpm packages from .spec file	Yes	No	No	No	?	?	?
Hosting user .rpm distro repository?	Yes	No	No	No	?	?	?
Auto-recreating .rpm repository when a package is rebuilt	Yes	No	No	No	?	?	?
Auto-building .deb packages from debian folder	Yes	No	No	No	?	?	?
Hosting user .deb distro repository?	Yes	No	No	No	?	?	?
System resource friendly? ?	Yes	No	?	Yes	?	?	?

Rights	RocketGit	Gitlab CE	GitHub	gitolite	Pagure.io	Gogs.io	Phabricator
Path control ?	Yes	No	?	Yes	Yes	?	?
Refs control ?	Yes	Yes	?	?	Yes	?	?
IP control ?	Yes	No	?	?	Yes?	?	?

Product distribution/evaluation	RocketGit	Gitlab CE	GitHub	gitolite	Pagure.io	Gogs.io	Phabricator
KVM image available?	Yes	?	?	not needed	?	?	No
VirtualBox image available?	Yes	?	?	not needed	?	?	No
VMWare image available?	Yes	?	?	not needed	?	?	No
Docker container available?	Yes	Yes	?	?	?	?	No

Details	RocketGit	Gitlab CE	GitHub	gitolite	Pagure.io	Gogs.io	Phabricator
Language	PHP	Ruby+Perl	Ruby	Perl	Python	Go	PHP
Number of code lines ?	56k	360k	?	?	80k	520k	?
Cache	Custom	Redis	memcache	n/a	Redis	Custom/Redis/memcache	?
Database	PostgreSQL	MySQL/PostgresSQL	MySQL	n/a	MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/SQLite	PostgreSQL/MySQL/SQLite	MySQL
Webserver	nginx/apache	apache/nginx	?	n/a	n/a	apache/nginx/lighttpd	apache/nginx
Size of the rpm package	500KiB	287MiB	n/a	170KiB	?	?	?
Page speed: Mobile ?	100	14	60	n/a	69	28	98
Page speed: Desktop ?	100	56	97	n/a	86	82	99
CSS size	9KiB	415KiB	770KiB	n/a	130KiB	520KiB	95KiB
JS size	0KiB	3000KiB	655KiB	n/a	450KiB	350KiB	52KiB
Runtime memory footprint	~160MiB	?	?	~10MiB	?	?	?

Notes
1) It has a not standard package manager; upgrading distro does not update the git software (pip, gem etc.). Or is a big archive including packages already found in the distribution.
2) Seems is not really secure: if key is leaked, the attacker can push?