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Gitcolony vs Hound: What are the differences?

What is Gitcolony? The next generation of pull requests. Gitcolony encourages developers to share early feedback, do partial reviews, reduce rework and leverage the knowledge of the whole group. Teams become more efficient by adding visibility to the process.

What is Hound? A hosted service that comments on Ruby style guide violations in your GitHub pull requests. Take care of pesky code reviews with a trusty Hound. Hound reviews GitHub pull requests for style guide violations.

Gitcolony and Hound can be primarily classified as "Code Review" tools.

Some of the features offered by Gitcolony are:

  • set up and enforce your own custom rules to keep your code quality under control. Gitcolony helps you reinforce your code review policies and best practices your team follows informally
  • collaborate with your team in real time, performing progressive checks to avoid titanic reviews
  • encourage software developers with performance rankings and gamification techniques

On the other hand, Hound provides the following key features:

  • Open source
  • Free for public repos
  • Automated reviews of GitHub pull requests for style guide violations

Hound is an open source tool with 1.72K GitHub stars and 393 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Hound's open source repository on GitHub.

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    What is Gitcolony?

    Gitcolony encourages developers to share early feedback, do partial reviews, reduce rework and leverage the knowledge of the whole group. Teams become more efficient by adding visibility to the process.

    What is Hound?

    Automated code review for GitHub pull requests. It comments on code quality and style issues, allowing you and your team to better review and maintain a clean codebase.

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