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Ask HN: Git Hosting

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I am on the fence about hosting my private git repos. I have used the public repos in github and it has been a pleasant experience but seems a bit pricey for what you get. Does anyone here have any experience with http://repositoryhosting.com/ for 6 bucks and unlimited projects with a limit only on the amount of data stored(1GB + $1/GB after) they drive a decent value proposition. But I am interested in the wisdom of HN.

As an aside: I have the capability of hosting the git repos on my linode server but I figured it was not worth the hassle of configuring all that and securing it. (I don't want to spend that much time thinking about source control when I could be doing something more profitable.) If it is not too much of a trouble to administer and setup I can go this route too as the server is already a sunk cost.

IME git configuration on a decent host is pretty trivial. Just do it over ssh not http. Its a little bit of effort to set up, but not really. If you want the fancy web fontend, things are a bit different, and I can't offer experience there.

http://scie.nti.st/2007/11/14/hosting-git-repositories-the-e... is what you're going to want to do... but I'd just use Github.

EDIT: Though, to be fair, we don't use Bitbucket (we're a Mercurial shop) for our private repos. Part of that though is the need for sexy commit emails.

That's a solid link. Thanks! I will probably go down this path as I am not too keen on giving my code to an outside party without guarantees of privacy. That and I have a server that I can use for no additional cost.

What about the plans at GitHub seems pricey? (Not trying to be snarky, I'm genuinely curious)

edit: what sort of guarantee of privacy are you expecting as well?

I've just been trying out unfuddle and codebase. Looks like i'll go with codebase for the slightly more polished ui and faster pageloads.

not sure if you've already checked them out, but projectlocker has free git hosting.

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