Gitus Code Forge

Gitus is a self-hosted code forge that mainly supports the Git distributed version control system.

Latest Release: v0.2.0 (2026-11-02)
Latest Nightly: v0.2.0+ (2026-11-02)

• Simple, functional UI;
• No JavaScript - works all major browsers and a lot of minor ones, including Ladybird, K-Meleon and NetSurf.
• Proper web installer for easy installation;
• Read/write access through SSH with per-namespace and/or per-repository user access control;
• Issue tracking, pull requests and issue labels;
• Pull request reviewers; every reviewer must approve the current commit;
• Webhooks for external CI/CD (experimental feature; subject to change)
• Support for snippets (à la GitHub snippets)
• Three operation modes for different needs:
  • Browse-only Mode, when you only need a web interface, similar to git-instaweb;
  • Host Mode, for a solo developer or a small team, with users, namespaces and repositories described by specially designated repositories;
  • Forge Mode, the full-featured mode with database-backed users, namespaces and repositories and web-configurable access control.
• And many tiny things:
  • Branch and tag management from the web UI;
  • Session list with per-session revocation;
  • Two-factor authentication (email, HOTP/TOTP, recovery codes);
  • Configurable repository size limits;
  • SSH key authentication through AuthorizedKeysCommand;
  • Labels for repositories;
  • UI for Git Blame;
  • UI for directly editing files;
  • Co-Authored-By

While we don't have a demo yet, here are a few screenshots of the web interface.

The code repository can currently be found on GitHub.