Kallithea is a

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source code management In software engineering, version control (also known as revision control, source control, or source code management) is a class of systems responsible for managing changes to computer programs, documents, large web sites, or other collections o ...

system, the primary goal of which is to provide a repository hosting service with features for collaboration, such as forking, pull requests,

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etc. Kallithea is a fork of

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, created after the original developer had changed the license terms. While earlier versions of RhodeCode were licensed entirely under the

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version 3, RhodeCode version 2.0 (released in August 2013) introduced exceptions for parts of the software distribution. According to

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, this exception statement is ambiguous and "leaves the redistributor feeling unclear about their rights". Kallithea is mostly written in

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. Kallithea is a member project of

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Kallithea supports hosting repositories of

Mercurial Mercurial is a distributed revision control tool for software developers. It is supported on Microsoft Windows and Unix-like systems, such as FreeBSD, macOS, and Linux. Mercurial's major design goals include high performance and scalability, d ...

and

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systems. Repositories can be grouped and thus allow to define common properties like access control. Its web interface for projects allows to fork as well as management of pull requests. It can also be used to quickly exchange code

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s by means of a revision controlled

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("gists").

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