Kallithea – source code management system

Kallithea is a source code management system that supports two version control systems, Mercurial and Git, and has a web interface that is easy to use for users and admins.

It works on HTTP/HTTPS and SSH, has a built-in permission/authentication system with the ability to authenticate via LDAP or ActiveDirectory. Kallithea also provides simple API so it’s easy to integrate with existing external systems.

It can be self-hosted and host repositories for the version control system of your choice.

This is free and open source software.

Key Features

• Has its own middleware to handle Mercurial and Git protocol requests. Each request is authenticated and logged together with IP address.
• Built for speed and performance. You can make multiple pulls/pushes simultaneously. Proven to work with thousands of repositories and users.
• Supports HTTP/HTTPS with LDAP, AD, or proxy-pass authentication.
• Supports SSH access with server-side public key management.
• Full permissions (private/read/write/admin) together with IP restrictions for each repository, additional explicit forking, repositories group and repository creation permissions.
• User groups for easier permission management.
• Repository groups let you group repos and manage them easier. They come with permission delegation features, so you can delegate groups management.
• Users can fork other users repos, and compare them at any time.
• Built-in versioned paste functionality (Gist) for sharing code snippets.
• Integrates easily with other systems, with custom created mappers you can connect it to almost any issue tracker, and with a JSON-RPC API you can make much more.
• Built-in commit API lets you add, edit and commit files right from Kallithea web interface using simple editor or upload binary files using simple form.
• Powerful pull request driven review system with inline commenting, changeset statuses, and notification system.
• Importing and syncing repositories from remote locations for Git and Mercurial.
• Mako templates let you customize the look and feel of the application.
• Beautiful diffs, annotations and source code browsing all colored by pygments. Raw diffs are made in Git-diff format for both VCS systems, including Git binary-patches.
• Mercurial and Git DAG graphs and Flot-powered graphs with zooming and statistics to track activity for repositories.
• Admin interface with user/permission management. Admin activity journal logs pulls, pushes, forks, registrations and other actions made by all users.
• Server side forks. It is possible to fork a project and modify it freely without breaking the main repository.
• reST and Markdown README support for repositories.
• Full text search powered by Whoosh on the source files, commit messages, and file names.
• Built-in indexing daemons, with optional incremental index build (no external search servers required all in one application).
• Setup project descriptions/tags and info inside built in DB for easy, non-filesystem operations.
  Intelligent cache with invalidation after push or project change, provides high performance and always up to date data.
• RSS/Atom feeds, Gravatar support, downloadable sources as zip/tar/gz.
• Optional async tasks for speed and performance using Celery.
• Backup scripts can do backup of whole app and send it over scp to desired location.
• Based on TurboGears2, SQLAlchemy, Whoosh, Bootstrap, and other open source libraries.
• Uses PostgreSQL, SQLite, or MariaDB/MySQL databases.

Website: kallithea-scm.org
Support:
Developer: Kallithea developers
License: Apache License 2.0

Kallithea is written in Python. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

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