GitBucket is the easily installable GitHub clone powered by Scala.

The current version of GitBucket provides a basic features below:

• Public / Private Git repository (http and ssh access)
• Repository viewer and online file editing
• Repository search (Code and Issues)
• Wiki
• Issues
• Fork / Pull request
• Mail notification
• Activity timeline
• User management (for Administrators)
• Group (like Organization in Github)
• LDAP integration
• Gravatar support

Following features are not implemented, but we will make them in the future release!

• Network graph
• Statistics
• Watch / Star

If you want to try the development version of GitBucket, see the documentation for developers at Wiki.

1. Download latest gitbucket.war from the release page.
2. Deploy it to the Servlet 3.0 container such as Tomcat 7.x, Jetty 8.x, GlassFish 3.x or higher.
3. Access http://[hostname]:[port]/gitbucket/ using your web browser.

If you are using Gitbucket behind a webserver please make sure you have increased the client_max_body_size (on nignx)

The default administrator account is root and password is root.

or you can start GitBucket by java -jar gitbucket.war without servlet container. In this case, GitBucket URL is http://[hostname]:8080/. You can specify following options.

• --port=[NUMBER]
• --prefix=[CONTEXTPATH]
• --host=[HOSTNAME]
• --gitbucket.home=[DATA_DIR]

To upgrade GitBucket, only replace gitbucket.war. All GitBucket data is stored in HOME/.gitbucket. So if you want to back up GitBucket data, copy this directory to the other disk.

For Installation on Windows Server with IIS see this wiki page

$ brew install gitbucket
==> Downloading https://github.com/takezoe/gitbucket/releases/download/1.10/gitbucket.war
######################################################################## 100.0%
==> Caveats
Note: When using launchctl the port will be 8080.

To have launchd start gitbucket at login:
    ln -sfv /usr/local/opt/gitbucket/*.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents
Then to load gitbucket now:
    launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.gitbucket.plist
Or, if you don't want/need launchctl, you can just run:
    java -jar /usr/local/opt/gitbucket/libexec/gitbucket.war
==> Summary
/usr/local/Cellar/gitbucket/1.10: 3 files, 42M, built in 11 seconds

On OS X, copy the gitbucket.plist file to ~/Library/LaunchAgents/

Run the following commands in Terminal to

• start gitbucket: launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/gitbucket.plist
• stop gitbucket: launchctl unload ~/Library/LaunchAgents/gitbucket.plist

• Directory history button
• Compare / pull request button
• Limit of activity log

• Rolled back H2 version to avoid version compatibility issue
• Plug-ins became possible to access ServletContext

• Web APIs for Jenkins github pull-request builder
• Improved diff view
• Bump Scalatra to 2.3.1, sbt to 0.13.8

• New plug-in system is available
• Connection pooling by c3p0
• New branch UI
• Compare between specified commit ids

• New logo and icons
• New system setting options to control visibility
• Comment on side-by-side diff
• Information message on sign-in page
• Fork repository by group account

• Comment for commit and diff
• Fix security issue in markdown rendering
• Some bug fix and improvements

• Search box at issues and pull requests
• Information from administrator
• Pull request UI has been updated
• Move to TravisCI from Buildhive
• Some bug fix and improvements

• New Dashboard
• Change datetime format
• Create branch from Web UI
• Task list in Markdown
• Some bug fix and improvements

• Bug fix

• New UI is applied to Issues and Pull requests
• Side-by-side diff is available
• Fix relative path problem in Markdown links and images
• Plugin System is disabled in default
• Some bug fix and improvements

• Scala based plugin system
• Embedded Jetty war extraction directory moved to GITBUCKET_HOME/tmp
• Some bug fix and improvements

• Bug fix

• Plug-in system is available
• Move to Scala 2.11, Scalatra 2.3 and Slick 2.1
• tar.gz export for repository contents
• LDAP authentication improvement (mail address became optional)
• Show news feed of a private repository to members
• Some bug fix and improvements

• Upgrade to Slick 2.0 from 1.9
• Base part of the plug-in system is merged
• Many bug fix and improvements

• Modern Github UI
• Preview in AceEditor
• Select lines by clicking line number in blob view

• Direct file editing in the repository viewer using AceEditor
• File attachment for issues
• Atom feed of user activity
• Fix some bugs

• SSH repository access is available
• Allow users can create and management their groups
• Git submodule support
• Close issues via commit messages
• Show repository description below the name on repository page
• Fix presentation of the source viewer
• Upgrade to sbt 0.13
• Fix some bugs

• Bug fix

• Base URL for redirection, notification and repository URL box is configurable
• Remove --https option because it's possible to substitute in the base url
• Headline anchor is available for Markdown contents such as Wiki page
• Improve H2 connectivity
• Label is available for pull requests not only issues
• Delete branch button is added
• Repository icons are updated
• Select lines of source code by URL hash like #L10 or #L10-L15 in repository viewer
• Display reference to issue from others in comment list
• Fix some bugs

• Rename repository
• Transfer repository owner
• Change default data directory to HOME/.gitbucket from HOME/gitbucket to avoid problem like #243, but if data directory already exist at HOME/gitbucket, it continues being used.
• Add LDAP display name attribute
• Response performance improvement
• Fix some bugs

• Display GITBUCKET_HOME on the system settings page
• Fix some bugs

• Add user and group deletion
• Improve pull request performance
• Pull request synchronization (when source repository is updated after pull request, it's applied to the pull request)
• LDAP StartTLS support
• Enable hard wrapping in Markdown
• Add new some options to specify the data directory. See details in Wiki.
• Fix some bugs

• Support working on Java6 in embedded Jetty mode
• Add --host option to bind specified host name in embedded Jetty mode
• Add --https=true option to force https scheme when using embedded Jetty mode at the back of https proxy
• Add full name as user property
• Change link color for absent Wiki pages
• Add ZIP download button to the repository viewer tab
• Improve ZIP exporting performance
• Expand issue and comment textarea for long text automatically
• Add conflict detection in Wiki
• Add reverting wiki page from history
• Match committer to user name by email address
• Mail notification sender is customizable
• Add link to changeset in refs comment for issues
• Fix some bugs

• Web hook
• Performance improvement for pull request
• Executable war file
• Specify suitable Content-Type for downloaded files in the repository viewer
• Fix some bugs

• Fork and pull request
• LDAP authentication
• Mail notification
• Add an option to turn off the gravatar support
• Add the branch tab in the repository viewer
• Encoding auto detection for the file content in the repository viewer
• Add favicon, header logo and icons for the timeline
• Specify data directory via environment variable GITBUCKET_HOME
• Fix some bugs

• Group management
• Repository search for code and issues
• Display user related issues on the dashboard
• Display participants avatar of issues on the issue page
• Performance improvement for repository viewer
• Alert by milestone due date
• H2 database administration console
• Fix some bugs

• Batch updating for issues
• Display assigned user on issue list
• User icon and Gravatar support
• Convert @xxxx to link to the account page
• Add copy to clipboard button for git clone URL
• Allow multi-byte characters as wiki page name
• Allow to create the empty repository
• Fix some bugs

• Add activity timeline
• Bugfix for Git 1.8.1.5 or later
• Allow multi-byte characters as label
• Fix some bugs

• Fix some bugs
• Upgrade to JGit 3.0

• This is a first public release