Gitee

For the self-hostable open-source Git forge project, see Gitea.

Gitee

Type of site	DevOps platform
Available in	English Chinese
Headquarters	China
Area served	Worldwide, mainly China
Owner	OSChina
Industry	Software
URL	gitee.com
Commercial	Yes
Registration	Optional
Users	8 million[1]
Launched	2013
Current status	Online

Gitee (simplified Chinese: 码云; traditional Chinese: 碼雲; pinyin: Mǎyún) is a proprietary online forge that allows software version control using Git and is intended primarily for the hosting of open source software. It is a fork of Gitea and uses a compatible API. It was launched by Shenzhen-based OSChina in 2013.[2][3] Gitee claims to have more than 10 million repositories and 5 million users.[3]

Gitee was chosen by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the Chinese government to make an "independent, open-source code hosting platform for China."[3]

Censorship

On May 18, 2022, Gitee announced all code will be manually reviewed before public availability.[4][5] Gitee did not specify a reason for the change, though there was widespread speculation it was ordered by the Chinese government amid increasing online censorship in China.[4][6]

See also

• GitHub
• GitLab
• Bitbucket

References

1. "About us". Gitee (in Chinese (China)). Retrieved 2022-05-10.
2. Borak, Masha (2020-08-28). "China pins its hopes on Gitee as an open source alternative to Microsoft's Github amid US tech tensions". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 2022-03-02.
3. Liao, Rita (2020-08-21). "China is building a GitHub alternative called Gitee". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2022-03-02.
4. "China's GitHub-like source code platform gets less open with manual reviews". South China Morning Post. 2022-05-19. Retrieved 2022-06-22.
5. "Gitee 开源库将先审再上线" (in Chinese (China)). 2022-05-19. Retrieved 2022-05-31.
6. Yang, Zeyi (30 May 2022). "How censoring China's open-source coders might backfire". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved 1 July 2022.

External links

• Official website