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  5. Gitea vs Tower

Gitea vs Tower

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Overview

Tower
Tower
Stacks214
Followers360
Votes80
Gitea
Gitea
Stacks325
Followers448
Votes123
GitHub Stars51.8K
Forks6.2K

Gitea vs Tower: What are the differences?

Gitea: A painless self-hosted Git service. Gitea is a community managed lightweight code hosting solution written in Go. It published under the MIT license; Tower: The most powerful Git client for Mac & Windows. Use all of Git's powerful feature set - in a GUI that makes you more productive.

Gitea belongs to "Code Collaboration & Version Control" category of the tech stack, while Tower can be primarily classified under "Source Code Management Desktop Apps".

"Self-hosted" is the top reason why over 8 developers like Gitea, while over 16 developers mention "Git" as the leading cause for choosing Tower.

Gitea is an open source tool with 14.7K GitHub stars and 1.6K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Gitea's open source repository on GitHub.

According to the StackShare community, Tower has a broader approval, being mentioned in 31 company stacks & 16 developers stacks; compared to Gitea, which is listed in 8 company stacks and 10 developer stacks.

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Advice on Tower, Gitea

Kamaleshwar
Kamaleshwar

Software Engineer at Dibiz Pte. Ltd.

Jul 8, 2020

Decided

Out of most of the VCS solutions out there, we found Gitlab was the most feature complete with a free community edition. Their DevSecops offering is also a very robust solution. Gitlab CI/CD was quite easy to setup and the direct integration with your VCS + CI/CD is also a bonus. Out of the box integration with major cloud providers, alerting through instant messages etc. are all extremely convenient. We push our CI/CD updates to MS Teams.

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Detailed Comparison

Tower
Tower
Gitea
Gitea

Use all of Git's powerful feature set - in a GUI that makes you more productive.

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. It published under the MIT license.

Clone & create repos with a click - Manage your GitHub, Bitbucket & Beanstalk accounts from within Tower;Open repos quickly - Tower's "Quick Open" dialog finds and opens repositories in no time;Automate the boring stuff - Fetching and stashing are automatically done for you, if you wish;Clone in the background- Downloading large projects happens in the background, while you work;Multiple windows - Have multiple projects open side-by-side
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Statistics
GitHub Stars
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GitHub Stars
51.8K
GitHub Forks
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GitHub Forks
6.2K
Stacks
214
Stacks
325
Followers
360
Followers
448
Votes
80
Votes
123
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 19
    Git
  • 16
    Just works
  • 10
    Version control
  • 6
    Simple layout
  • 6
    Awesome
Cons
  • 5
    Expensive
  • 4
    Subscription based
  • 1
    No side by side diff
  • 0
    Merge conflict resolution impossible/unclear
Pros
  • 24
    Self-hosted
  • 16
    Lightweight
  • 15
    Free
  • 12
    Simple
  • 9
    Multiple code maintainers
Cons
  • 3
    Community-fork of Gogs
  • 0
    Easy Windows authentication is not supported
Integrations
Bitbucket
Bitbucket
TextMate
TextMate
Visual Studio
Visual Studio
GitHub
GitHub
GitLab
GitLab
Git
Git
Xcode
Xcode
Gerrit Code Review
Gerrit Code Review
Beanstalk
Beanstalk
Raspberry Pi
Raspberry Pi
DingTalk
DingTalk
Discord
Discord
OpenLDAP
OpenLDAP
Drone.io
Drone.io
Jenkins
Jenkins
Vagrant
Vagrant
MySQL
MySQL
SQLite
SQLite
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL

What are some alternatives to Tower, Gitea?

GitHub

GitHub

GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over three million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.

Bitbucket

Bitbucket

Bitbucket gives teams one place to plan projects, collaborate on code, test and deploy, all with free private Git repositories. Teams choose Bitbucket because it has a superior Jira integration, built-in CI/CD, & is free for up to 5 users.

GitLab

GitLab

GitLab offers git repository management, code reviews, issue tracking, activity feeds and wikis. Enterprises install GitLab on-premise and connect it with LDAP and Active Directory servers for secure authentication and authorization. A single GitLab server can handle more than 25,000 users but it is also possible to create a high availability setup with multiple active servers.

SourceTree

SourceTree

Use the full capability of Git and Mercurial in the SourceTree desktop app. Manage all your repositories, hosted or local, through SourceTree's simple interface.

GitKraken

GitKraken

The downright luxurious Git client for Windows, Mac and Linux. Cross-platform, 100% standalone, and free.

RhodeCode

RhodeCode

RhodeCode provides centralized control over distributed code repositories. Developers get code review tools and custom APIs that work in Mercurial, Git & SVN. Firms get unified security and user control so that their CTOs can sleep at night

AWS CodeCommit

AWS CodeCommit

CodeCommit eliminates the need to operate your own source control system or worry about scaling its infrastructure. You can use CodeCommit to securely store anything from source code to binaries, and it works seamlessly with your existing Git tools.

Gogs

Gogs

The goal of this project is to make the easiest, fastest and most painless way to set up a self-hosted Git service. With Go, this can be done in independent binary distribution across ALL platforms that Go supports, including Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows.

Fork

Fork

Manage your repositories without leaving the application. Organize the repositores into categories. Fork's Diff Viewer provides a clear view to spot the changes in your source code quickly.

Sublime Merge

Sublime Merge

A snappy UI, three-way merge tool, side-by-side diffs, syntax highlighting, and more. Evaluate for free – no account, tracking, or time limits.

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