Standard Features (GO/WAR)

• Integrated JGit http/https SmartHTTP servlet
• Integrated JGit git protocol daemon
• Integrated Mina SSHD daemon
• Optional feature to allow users to create personal repositories
• Optional feature to fork a repository to a personal repository
• Optional feature to create a repository on push
• Optional feature to automatically fetch ref updates for repository mirrors
• Optional Issue Tracker and Pull-Request-like mechanism
• Four per-repository access restriction configurations with a Read-Only control flag
  • Anonymous View, Clone & Push
  • Authenticated Push
  • Authenticated Clone & Push
  • Authenticated View, Clone & Push
  • Freeze repository (i.e. deny push, make read-only)
• Six per-user/team repository access permissions
  • V (view in web ui, RSS feeds, download zip)
  • R (clone)
  • RW (clone and push)
  • RWC (clone and push with ref creation)
  • RWD (clone and push with ref creation, deletion)
  • RW+ (clone and push with ref creation, deletion, rewind)
• Menu driven native platform clone links for all popular Git clients
• Garbage Collection service
• Ability to federate with one or more other Gitblit instances
• RSS/JSON RPC interface
• An evolving plugin infrastructure
• Java/Swing Gitblit Manager tool
• Responsive web UI that subtracts elements to be usable on phones, tablets, and desktop browsers
• Groovy pre- and post- push hook scripts, per-repository or globally for all repositories
• Rich Push email notifications (via sendmail.groovy push script)
• Rich Ticket email notifications
• Lucene indexing of specified repository branches
• Administrators may create, edit, rename, or delete repositories through the web UI or RPC interface
• Administrators may create, edit, rename, or delete users through the web UI or RPC interface
• Administrators may create, edit, rename, or delete teams through the web UI or RPC interface
• Repository Owners may edit repositories through the web UI
• Administrators and Repository Owners may set the default branch through the web UI or RPC interface
• LDAP authentication and optional LDAP-controlled Team memberships
• Redmine authentication
• Salesforce.com authentication
• Windows authentication
• PAM authentication
• Gravatar integration
• Git-notes display support
• Submodule support
• User-tracked reflog for pushes, tags, etc.
• Fanout PubSub notifications service for self-hosted Sparkleshare use
• gh-pages display support (Jekyll is not supported)
• Branch metrics
• HEAD and Branch RSS feeds
• Blame annotations view
• Dates can optionally be displayed using the browser's reported timezone
• Display of Author and Committer email addresses can be disabled
• Case-insensitive searching of commit messages, authors, or committers
• Dynamic zip downloads feature
• Docs page which enumerates all Markdown files within a repository
• Markdown, Confluence, Textile, Twiki, Tracwiki, & Mediawiki markup rendering support
• Syntax highlighting for popular source code types
• Customizable regular expression substitution for commit messages (i.e. bug or code review link integration)
• Single text file for users configuration
• Translations
  • German (de)
  • English (en)
  • Spanish (es)
  • French (fr)
  • Italian (it)
  • Japanese (ja)
  • Korean (ko)
  • Dutch (nl)
  • Norwegian (no)
  • Polish (pl)
  • Brazilian Portuguese (pt_BR)
  • Simplified Chinese (zh_CN)

Gitblit GO Features

• Out-of-the-box integrated stack requiring minimal configuration
• Automatic generation of ssl certificate for https communications
• Integrated GUI tool to facilitate x509 PKI including ssl and client certificate generation, client certificate revocation, and client certificate distribution
• Single text file for configuring server and gitblit
• A Windows service installation script and configuration tool

Limitations

• Built-in access controls are not branch-based, they are repository-based.