Git hosting

Git hosting platforms, or forges, are where engineering teams keep their source code, review changes, run continuous integration, and track issues. That makes a forge one of the most concentrated stores of sensitive material an organisation holds: proprietary code, deployment secrets, security advisories, and the full history of who changed what. It is also a category where the US incumbents are near-universal defaults. GitHub is owned by Microsoft, and GitLab.com is operated by the US-incorporated GitLab Inc.; both carry direct CLOUD Act exposure, meaning a US legal demand can in principle reach repository content wherever it is stored.

For EU buyers the deciding factors are operator jurisdiction and hosting region, both shown on every listing below. The two European services in this category both build on Forgejo, the open-source forge governed by Codeberg e.V. in Germany, which means the underlying engine is auditable and self-hostable regardless of which service you choose. Codeberg (Germany) is a free, non-profit, community-governed forge that deliberately keeps its infrastructure in the EU to stay outside US legal reach; it is the natural home for open-source projects. Codebahn (a Swedish operator hosting primarily in France) is a paid, commercially supported managed forge with a publicly accessible DPA and a fully EU-incorporated sub-processor chain, aimed at teams and businesses that need contractual guarantees. Where full data control is the priority, the same open-source engines can be self-hosted on EU infrastructure.