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

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