Google Code Project Hosting
Google hosted open-source code, issues and downloads for a decade, then froze the platform as development communities moved to GitHub.
Quick facts
- Existence state
- Officially Gone
- Peak stage
- general availability
- Research confidence
- high
- Last verified
What it was
A public source-code hosting and project-management service operated by Google.
A public source-code hosting and project-management service operated by Google. Google Code provided Subversion, Mercurial and Git repositories with issue tracking, wikis and downloads. Its clean interface became home to thousands of open-source projects.
Existence timeline
Developers begin creating public software projects on Google Code.
Mercurial and later Git join Subversion hosting.
Abuse and ecosystem change begin narrowing the platform.
New project creation stops and migration tools become available.
Projects become read-only rather than disappearing entirely.
Why it ended
Google stopped new-project creation in 2015, made repositories read-only and closed active hosting in January 2016.
Last confirmed trace
The Google Code Archive preserves read-only project pages and source exports for many repositories.
What it left behind
Unlike many shutdowns, this one left a deliberate public fossil record that still supports links, research and software archaeology.
How we classified it
The archive unit reached normal public release or operation and is no longer obtainable in its original public form.
Verified normal public availability maps to 100 under Arrival Score V1.
Sources & verification
Last reviewed 2026-08-01. Sources are linked so readers can inspect the evidence directly.