Each offers an on-premises solution for hosting repos inside your firewall — GitHub Enterprise, GitLab, and Bitbucket Server. And here is where the battle for the enterprise begins.

There are three big contenders now for the best place to stash your regular expressions, anonymous functions, and intense recursive tree-walking flashes of genius: GitHub, Bitbucket, and GitLab.

Bitbucket is somewhat stuck in the confines of the broader Atlassian product line, and it lacks both GitHub’s depth and GitLab’s breadth. Fewer extensibility options Although Bitbucket is represented ...

GitLab, on the other side, has a smaller community, but the way it engages it by hosting events and gatherings makes it no less than GitHub’s community. GitLab vs. GitHub: Our Verdict. Based on the ...