Free SVN Repositories to Host your Projects

We are planning to start work on an open source project soon. As a result, we were looking out for a free SVN repository [what is SVN?] with the following main features:

reliable version control system
mailing lists, forums, issue tracker, pages, download area
web based administration

Here are some free SVN repositories we found and thought of sharing with you, in case you too are looking out for some. Note that some of the products listed here have both free and commercial options. I am highlighting only the Free plans.

Assembla - Unlimited Users. Unlimited Projects. 2 GB Storage. Ideal for consultants and small agile-development teams that want a safe, reliable version control solution.

Unfuddle – Free for 2 users, 200 MB of space. Unlimited Repositories Subversion & Git.

BeanStalk – Free for 3 users, 1 private repository (Git or SVN) and 100 MB of space.

ProjectLocker – Free for 5 Users, 500 MB space and unlimited projects

Origo - Origo is an open source software development and collaboration platform that provides an SVN repository (with web interface), project wiki page, issue tracker with tag support, releases area etc.

Google Code - Project Hosting on Google Code provides a free collaborative development environment for open source projects. Each project comes with its own member controls, Subversion/Mercurial repository, issue tracker, wiki pages, and downloads section.

Gna! - Gna! provides Source Code Repositories (CVS, GNU Arch, Subversion), Download Area, Web Pages, Mailing-Lists and Trackers (Bugs, Task, Support Requests, Patches).

BerliOS - BerliOS Developer is a free service to Open Source developers offering easy access to the best in CVS/SVN/Mercurial/GIT, mailing lists, bug tracking, message boards/forums, task management, site hosting, permanent file archival, full backups, and total web-based administration.

You may also want to take a look at CodePlex, GitHub, SourceForge and Freepository

About The Author

Suprotim Agarwal, Developer Technologies MVP (Microsoft Most Valuable Professional) is the founder and contributor for DevCurry, DotNetCurry and SQLServerCurry. He is the Chief Editor of a Developer Magazine called DNC Magazine. He has also authored two Books - 51 Recipes using jQuery with ASP.NET Controls. and The Absolutely Awesome jQuery CookBook.

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11 comments:

Robert Massaioli said...: Though I personally prefer git (thus GitHub). You should also consider Mecurial which can be hosted on Bit Bucket.; August 18, 2010 at 4:07 AM
AdvanCode said...: Would be nice to know which ones allow private projects, not only public ones.; August 18, 2010 at 6:21 AM
Peter Farlow said...: Assembla allows private projects, very nice ones at that. I don't know about the others.; August 18, 2010 at 11:24 AM
Karthikeyan C said...: XP-DEV also provides free subversion hosting for private projects; August 18, 2010 at 8:40 PM
Erin said...: Codesion also offers free hosting for open source accounts. Includes SVN, Git, Trac and Bugzilla.; August 19, 2010 at 2:18 PM
Java Development said...: Great list, thanks for sharing its really useful.; August 20, 2010 at 4:03 PM
Suprotim Agarwal said...: Thank you all for the additional inputs!; August 26, 2010 at 10:32 PM
Anonymous said...: There is RiouxSVN which offers free subversion hosting with great service.; March 15, 2011 at 7:53 AM
Anonymous said...: ProjectLocker : Free for 3 users, 300Mo and up to 3 projects; July 6, 2011 at 3:32 AM
Unknown said...: I've created a list for free svn hosting repositories.

Hth; October 15, 2012 at 8:37 AM
Unknown said...: CodePlex is shutting down: https://aka.ms/codeplex-announcement

Death to free SVN.; March 31, 2017 at 12:55 PM