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Have you ever looked into using an s3 backed git repo via jgit? Not sure how many files/revisions you have but it may be a cost effective alternative that you can start using today.

We use it for auto deploys from autoscaled instances cuz github has poor uptime.

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No, but I don't understand what this is. Java git? Bound to eclipse? I don't really understand how this would be different than me storing a .git repo locally and replicating it to S3.

jgit is a java implementation of git, that just so happens to have built in s3 support.

You can get a self contained cli (jgit.sh) from here: https://eclipse.org/jgit/download/ . It does not have an eclipse dependency.

you can then just add an s3 remote and push to this remote as part of your CI flow.

Here is a decent article that describes the end-to-end: http://www.fancybeans.com/blog/2012/08/24/how-to-use-s3-as-a...

I love my jgit s3 git repos. It is super cheap almost free git storage/backup.

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