RhodeCode is an open source self-hosted platform for behind-the-firewall source code management. It provides centralized control over

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, and

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repositories within an organization, with common authentication and permission management. RhodeCode allows forking,

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s, and

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s via a web interface.

Software

RhodeCode is an enterprise

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platform for

, and SVN repositories. It also provides a web interface and APIs to control

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access, manage users, and conduct

s. The platform applies existing tools and integrations across the whole code base in a unified way. RhodeCode is written in Python using the

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. It is run as a standalone hosted application on a dedicated server (or in a private cloud) to manage multiple repositories within an organization. RhodeCode CE is free, with an unlimited number of users and repositories. RhodeCode EE is for-fee and builds enterprise integrations on top of CE.

Features

Team collaboration: * Advanced

s. * Side-by-side diffs. *

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s. * Inline source code chat. * Full-text code search and source code indexing. * Web-based file adding, editing, deletion. * Code snippets system (

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). Repository management: * Unified support for Mercurial, Git, and Subversion. * Fine-grained user management and tools for the access control. * Advanced permission system with IP restrictions. Code security and authentication: * Pluggable authentication system with tokens and

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support, Atlassian Crowd, Http-Headers, Pam. * Enterprise authentication options:

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authentication, 2-factor authentication. * Integration with 3rd party issue trackers and CI tools ( Jira,

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, Jenkins, etc.)

Editions

RhodeCode platform comes in two editions: * RhodeCode CE (Community Edition) is free and open source. It is licensed under the terms of

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license, with the source code openly available. * RhodeCode EE (Enterprise Edition) is licensed per user, adds technical support and enterprise authentication on top of RhodeCode CE.

Contributions

RhodeCode CE licensed under the

license. Developers willing to contribute need to sign the Contributor License Agreement (CLA), before their changes are merged into RhodeCode's main codebase. RhodeCode has an active community of open source contributors and a developer program.

History

RhodeCode was created in 2010 by Marcin Kuźmiński to satisfy his need for a more efficient and secure way to manage source code across

and SVN repositories behind a

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in large organisations. RhodeCode was released as

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. At the beginning of 2013, RhodeCode Enterprise was created to implement features that enterprise users were requesting. The new version was released in August 2013, which also made parts of the software no longer open source.

Move to open source

Earlier versions of RhodeCode Enterprise were licensed entirely under the

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version 3, but in August 2013, RhodeCode 2.0, introduced exceptions for parts of the software distribution. Because RhodeCode had accepted patches from independent developers, contributed under the GPL license, there was a dispute about whether the company had the legal rights to make such change. According to

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, the exception statement is ambiguous and "leaves the redistributor feeling unclear about their rights". Furthermore, he insists, GPLv3 §7¶4 forbids behaviour of that sort. Instead of pursuing litigation, which might take years, SFC decided to

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the project under the name

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, replacing the non-free files with free ones. Starting 2016, RhodeCode is open source, with source code for RhodeCode CE (Community Edition) openly available under the

license. As the company explains in their blog, with this move they intend "to accelerate the pace and scope of innovation on hodeCodeplatform"
rhodecode.com, 2016
. RhodeCode EE (Enterprise Edition) has a proprietary business license.

Company

RhodeCode Inc. is a software company that creates products for enterprise software development. Its

and

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products aim at

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s, project managers and

DevOps DevOps is a set of practices that combines software development (''Dev'') and IT operations (''Ops''). It aims to shorten the systems development life cycle and provide continuous delivery with high software quality. DevOps is complementary t ...

engineers. RhodeCode as a company was founded and incorporated in July 2013 by Marcin Kuzminski and Sebastian Kreutzberger. It achieved its Series A funding of $3.5M in October 2014 and is currently funded by Earlybird Venture Capital and DFJ Esprit. RhodeCode is headquartered in

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, it also has offices in

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References

External links

* {{Official website, http://www.rhodecode.com Version control Free version control software Free software programmed in Python Distributed version control systems Technology companies established in 2010 Software companies of Germany Project management software Software review