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

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