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1@title Introduction
2@group intro
3
4This document provides a high-level overview of the Phorge project.
5
6= What is Phorge? =
7
8**Phorge** (pronounced like the word //forge//) is a suite of web
9applications which make it easier to build software, particularly when working
10with teams. Phorge is a fork of Phabricator, which in turn is largely based on
11Facebook's internal tools.
12
13The major components of Phorge are:
14
15 - **Differential**, a code review tool; and
16 - **Diffusion**, a repository browser; and
17 - **Maniphest**, a bug tracker; and
18 - **Phriction**, a wiki.
19
20Phorge also includes a number of smaller tools.
21
22= Why use Phorge? =
23
24Phorge gives you a box of solid tools for a comparatively small setup cost.
25The tools all work together and are richly integrated. The whole thing is free
26and open source. You own all your data. Phorge is extremely fast and proven
27to scale both to large datasets (Facebook has 500,000+ commits across many
28repositories) and large organizations (Facebook has 500+ fulltime engineers).
29Phorge's tools are easy to learn, understand, and use.
30
31However, Phorge may also not be a good solution for you:
32
33 - If you develop primarily on Windows, you are likely to find integration
34 with the toolsets you use lacking.
35 - If you don't use SVN, Git or Mercurial, you'll have to add support for your
36 VCS before you can get anywhere.
37 - If you loathe PHP, well, it's written in PHP. Sorry. It is a victim of
38 circumstances. We assert it is well-written PHP, at least.
39
40= Next Steps =
41
42Continue by:
43
44 - installing Phorge with the @{article:Installation Guide}.