Gitbucket – The easily installable Github clone powered by Scala

[lawl]

I just slapped it on my server works great. Easier to maintain than GitLab, though with way less features. Probably not something for a company to use, there i'd go with gitlab, but it's just perfect for your own private server, instead of using the ugly cgit or something.

[Trufa]

Not to get on a Scala flamewar but for people considering this, take into consideration that Scala is pretty hard and with different paradigms, so if you ever want to do a little fix yourself, this might not be trivial. While RoR has also it's particularities, it is easier IMO to hack something away if you would need to even if you're not proficient in it.

[taspeotis]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6494478

[ballard]

It's clever branding and nice.

If it could use Heroku as backends for repos, now that would probably break HK's freemium model.

The other point is that bitbucket has unlimited private repos for free and github has unlimited public ones for free. In a business setting, I can't see the time and cost of maintaining code services except as a backup, or if you are Goldman Sachs imprisoning your ex-employees or a defense contractor working on missiles. (Setting up giolite + active directory + Crowd + JIRA + FishEye was a chore I'd rather not repeat.)

It looks a little nicer than gitlab, but has anyone had recent experience with gitlab, redmine or github enterprise?

Ultimately though, github could threaten C&D against the authors if it were to take off because it's such a design ripoff. Although it has almost no commercial viability it's neat for its own sake.

[daveoflynn]

> Setting up giolite + active directory + Crowd + JIRA + FishEye was a chore I'd rather not repeat.

For anyone tackling this today for a small-medium team: set up JIRA first, point Stash at JIRA, done. JIRA can act as a user management server for the other Atlassian products.

[aragot]

+1 for private repos on BitBucket.

Actually the name is very similar to BitBucket and it was used by the BitBucket team when they started to support Git. I wonder if the author is playing on the confusion?

Disclaimer: I worked for Atlassian in the past.

[Cynddl]

We use Gitlab for about 30 people. The last versions are really neat. The UX is perhaps better with Github, but Gitlab is easier to learn and use, especially for small organisations.

I am always reluctant to use "clones" like gitbucket... If the usage is not the same, why making a clone? Indeed, it is always easier to copy a brand but is it worthwhile?

[Romoku]

    >because it's such a design ripoff

Considering Github is based on Twitter Bootstrap they'd need to be actively using Github's custom css.

[simula67]

If anyone is looking for similar stuff, I have also been testing RhodeCode ( which despite being GPLv3 seems to be free for only 20 devs ). It installs with an interactive python script in minutes on RHEL and is much better.

[n0nick]

Took me a couple minutes to find a link to a demo site: http://gitbucket.herokuapp.com/

EDIT: credentials are root/root

[ultrafez]

The demo link should be right at the top of the GitHub description, as it should be with all projects that have demos.

[bachback]

many thanks for the work. with so much things on github some distribution is good. it would nice to make this into a packer image and be able to boot it up on AWS on a click (better than heroku).

the other one is: https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq

[rgbrgb]

Are there screenshots?

[aberkowitz]

This blog post has some screenshots: http://takezoe.blogspot.com/2013/09/gitbucket-15-released.ht...

[yohanatan]

It's a clone.

[marc_omorain]

Gitbucket is hosted on github, which made me smile.

Is it ready for production use? Does anyone on HN use it?

I'd be interested in having a local install for a corporate environment if it could be easily set up to mirror a private github.com repository. Decentralised github!

[syntern]

Having tried to setup a few local git repositories myself, I do appreciate the easy install part. This is a really handy tool for a small company that is not much into figuring out all the details of gitorious or gitlab.

Keep up the good work guys!

[btd]

I did the same tool, when begin learn scala, with jgit and apache project libraries it was enough simple. https://github.com/btd/luna

[rndstr]

I managed to bring in existing repositories by creating a bare repo in the webapp then replacing the created folder with my real repository (or just symlink to it).

Is there a streamlined way of doing that?

[rav]

You should be able to just create an empty repo at the destination and use git's own `git push --all` to bring in your existing repository.

[caniszczyk]

Technically powered by JGit too (which powers Gerrit, Gitblit and other tools): http://eclipse.org/jgit/

[nahname]

Looks like there are hardly any automated tests for this project?

[gregmolnar]

I still don't get why the guy couldn't make a different look from github. It just makes him look like a copycat.

[bjackman]

Cool! How does this compare to Gitorious?

[artpop]

Friendface