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cgit vs Soft Serve: catalog facts
cgit	Soft Serve
Free Free and open source under the GPLv2.	Free The open-source application is available without a license fee.
Web, Self-hosted	Windows, macOS, Linux, Self-hosted
Written in C with built-in HTML caching Commit feeds, tag archives and side-by-side diffs	Browse and administer repositories over SSH
Read-only browsing with no issues, pull requests or user accounts Must be built and configured on your own web server	Requires operating and maintaining a Git server.
Self-hosted	Self-hosted
Open source	Open source
License: GPL-2.0	License: MIT
No account needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Not stated if it works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 22, 2026

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