Gerrit Code Review vs GitBucket: What are the differences?

Developers describe Gerrit Code Review as "OpenSource Git Code Review Tool". Gerrit is a self-hosted pre-commit code review tool. It serves as a Git hosting server with option to comment incoming changes. It is highly configurable and extensible with default guarding policies, webhooks, project access control and more. On the other hand, GitBucket is detailed as "The easily installable Github clone powered by Scala". GitBucket provides a Github-like UI and features such as Git repository hosting via HTTP and SSH, repository viewer, issues, wiki and pull request.

Gerrit Code Review can be classified as a tool in the "Code Review" category, while GitBucket is grouped under "Code Collaboration & Version Control".

Some of the features offered by Gerrit Code Review are:

• git repository hosting
• pre-commit code review
• commenting on diffs

On the other hand, GitBucket provides the following key features:

• Public / Private Git repository (http and ssh access)
• Repository viewer and online file editing
• Repository search (Code and Issues)

"Code review" is the top reason why over 6 developers like Gerrit Code Review, while over 7 developers mention "Self hosted" as the leading cause for choosing GitBucket.

GitBucket is an open source tool with 7.73K GitHub stars and 1.06K GitHub forks. Here's a link to GitBucket's open source repository on GitHub.

According to the StackShare community, Gerrit Code Review has a broader approval, being mentioned in 11 company stacks & 6 developers stacks; compared to GitBucket, which is listed in 3 company stacks and 6 developer stacks.