Meet Atlassian Stash: Git Repository Management for Enterprise Teams
blogs.atlassian.com/2012/05/atlassian-stash-enterprise-git-repository-management
From the page
Saved with the link. Notes from 2007 to 2016 are mostly the page's own words, so this is probably an excerpt.
Stash delivers you a central, secure solution tocreate and manage distributed repositories, on your own servers. Developers can trust that they will find the latest official version of a project. Managers can trust that users access to code is appropriate for their role, and assigned with minimal administrative overhead.Let Stash be the central source of truth for all of your source!