Version Control: Feature overview

In addition to GitHub, Bitbucket and GitLab support, Buddy offers a fully-featured Git hosting for private repositories, both in cloud and self-hosted version. This option is useful for people who like to keep everything in one place, prefer a clean GUI over cluttered interface, or cannot use any of the aforementioned Git providers for whatever reason.

TIP: New to Git and version control? Check out our entry level guide.

Visualized Git workflow

git log, git show, git blame, git diff – Buddy visualizes popular Git commands using the GUI, making it easier to review changes and track progress in the project.

Code tab

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Easy branch management

Choose the source and the target branch, compare changes, resolve conflicts, and merge with one click. Every option no further than two clicks away.

Setting up branches

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Code in cloud

Buddy hosting lets you browse and edit files in a powerful code editor with blame tool and syntax highlight, great for putting out fires on production and correcting website typos.

Code editor

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Keep code safe & sound

Restrict access to key branches with push permissions. Use merge requests to keep the Master branch always ready for deployment.

TIP: Learn how to improve source code quality with branch permissions and merge requests in this guide

Merge request

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Ready for Continuous Deployment

Automatically build and deploy apps and websites on push to selected branch.

TIP: New to CI/CD? Read how to place code under version control and automate its deployment in this 5-minute guide.

Pipeline example