Gitolite vs Phabricator

Gitolite vs Phabricator: What are the differences?

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; Phabricator: Open Source, Software Development Platform. Phabricator is a collection of open source web applications that help software companies build better software.

Gitolite can be classified as a tool in the "Code Collaboration & Version Control" category, while Phabricator is grouped under "Code Review".

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, Phabricator provides the following key features:

• reviewing code before it hits master
• auditing code after it hits master
• hosting Git/Hg/SVN repositories

"Easy setup" is the top reason why over 4 developers like Gitolite, while over 31 developers mention "Open Source" as the leading cause for choosing Phabricator.

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.