Gitolite vs Notepad++

Gitolite vs Notepad++: What are the differences?

What is Gitolite? Setup git hosting on a central server, with fine-grained access control. Gitolite allows you to setup git hosting on a central server, with fine-grained access control and many more powerful features. Gitolite is an access control layer on top of git.

What is Notepad++? Free source code editor and Notepad replacement. Notepad++ is a free (as in "free speech" and also as in "free beer") source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. Running in the MS Windows environment, its use is governed by GPL License.

Gitolite can be classified as a tool in the "Code Collaboration & Version Control" category, while Notepad++ is grouped under "Text Editor".

Some of the features offered by Gitolite are:

• Use a single unix user ("real" user) on the server.
• Provide access to many gitolite users: they are not "real" users, so they do not get shell access.
• Control access to many git repositories: read access controlled at the repo level, and write access controlled at the branch/tag/file/directory level, including who can rewind, create, and delete branches/tags.

On the other hand, Notepad++ provides the following key features:

• Syntax Highlighting and Syntax Folding
• User Defined Syntax Highlighting and Folding: screenshot 1, screenshot 2, screenshot 3 and screenshot 4
• PCRE (Perl Compatible Regular Expression) Search/Replace

"Easy setup" is the top reason why over 4 developers like Gitolite, while over 94 developers mention "Syntax for all languages that i use" as the leading cause for choosing Notepad++.

Gitolite is an open source tool with 7.45K GitHub stars and 960 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Gitolite's open source repository on GitHub.