Best Open Source Source Code Management in 2026
Tools for hosting, managing, and collaborating on source code using Git and other version control systems.
The most popular pick this year is Gitea with 55,807 GitHub stars, but all 2 options below are worth considering depending on your needs.
2 open source source code management — ranked by GitHub stars. Browse all
Gitea
Painless self-hosted all-in-one software development service with Git hosting, code review, CI/CD, and package registry.
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Forgejo
A community-driven self-hosted Git forge, forked from Gitea, focused on software freedom and federation.
GitHubHow we rank these tools
Tools are ranked by GitHub stars as a proxy for community adoption and trust. Stars reflect how many developers found a project valuable enough to bookmark — a reasonable signal for quality in the open source world. We only list tools that are actively maintained and open source.
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