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Why I've built an alternative to Github
- comechao 15y agoThe "one price" is an awesome feature for indie developers and small companies.
- taphangum 15y agoI REALLY don't think that github's plan is unreasonable. I pay for it quite happily. But good on you for DOING something about how you felt
- unshift 15y agofor updated-infrequently-if-ever repos, github's pricing doesn't make a lot of sense. i have plenty of small, one-off repos i'd love to back up on github but it doesn't make sense for me to upgrade plans for them. i just back up to multiple boxes, but i can understand why someone would want something centralized and specific.
- watty 15y agoI agree. My small company has many 1-2 week dev efforts that we'd like to have on GitHub but simply can't afford it. I've tried creating a "small project" repository and using different branches to host the different projects but am definitely not satisified. GitHub NEEDS a size-limited hosting plan.
- Luyt 15y agoAs soon as GitHub introduces size-limited plans, will Codeplane be able to attract new customers?
- jjm 15y agoMust admit I do like the price.
- veeti 15y agoLooks like a more polished version of http://repositoryhosting.com http://repositoryhosting.com, which I'm using at the moment. Will definitely give this a try!
- kgtm 15y agoIs it really necessary to disguise a Linode referrer link using bit.ly in the homepage? I would be more inclined to click it if it wasn't masked...
- fnando 15y agoI just wanted to see how many clicks that would have, but you're right. Just removed the link since I just don't care. ;)
- mcantor 15y agoYou might be able to do a quick happy medium by generating a "vanity url" such as bit.ly/sneaky-affiliate-link or something.
- JonnieCache 15y agoOr perhaps a sneaky bit of javascript to track click events on that link via ajax.
- guivinicius 15y agoI'm using codeplane for quite a month ... it's really good. I think the only thing i will miss from github, is the feature to view your code online.
- selectnull 15y agoOne plan, one price seems like a good tagline, but what if a user needs more than 2GB? I guess you'll want to charge them more money for more space, and eventually will have more plans, or will charge per GB? Btw, I like both the idea and execution. Good luck... :)
- fnando 15y agoYeah, There will be a way for buying additional storage. You'll by a whole GB. Don't want to have different plans, though.
- yakto 15y agoAnyone else happy with Assembla? 2GB, unlimited repos and users, source browser, etc.: http://offers.assembla.com/free-git-hosting/ http://offers.assembla.com/free-git-hosting/
- yakto 15y agoAh, there is some fine print: > Please note: While we do not guarantee our free services, we do want to build a long-term relationship with you. So, even if you sign up today for a free plan, and we discontinue that plan, we provide service for at least a year after you sign up. We will add and remove our Free offers to meet customer demand. Enjoy what we have posted today, and check back regularly for additional offerings!
- barkingcat 15y agoThe UI at Assembla is awkward to work with. I participated in a project that used Assembla, and I kept getting a flood of emails attached to tasks and revisions that I didn't want to follow.
- Revisor 15y agoYou can change the email notifications, BUT: I couldn't find it for 5 minutes! A similar thing happened to me a few weeks ago when I was looking for a way to add more repositories to a project. Luckily I got an answer quickly on their support forum (and yes, it was there). So yes, the UI and information hierarchy is lacking, but ultimately it can do a lot of things. (For future reference, you can change the settings under Stream - Email Notifications).
- Revisor 15y agoAssembla is not really a GIT hosting, it's project management with repos. You can use tickets, wiki, internal forum, GIT/Mercurial/SVN repos and some build/deploy tools. Admittedly some of their tools have small problems, but the team is responsive and improves it steadily. I've used one of their paid programs for everything we do (must be about two years by now) and I would recommend it. Assembla doesn't seem to have that social aspect like Github, but I find their combination of tickets, wiki, forum and repos more useful.
- gcb 15y ago30 day trial for a long term usage pattern? give me free accounts with a few MBs and you have yourself a user base. github didnt get that size with 9/mo plans...
- angrycoder 15y agoMaybe I'm not fully understanding this.. If I don't need the web interface and public code sharing, why would I use this verse getting a Linode instance and installing git there.
- fnando 15y agoI know I don't need a web interface, at the same time I know people that loves and only uses the UI. Why not solving this specific problem and still making all other users happy? Makes sense?
- initself 15y ago$9 vs $20?
- masnick 15y ago> If I don't need the web interface and public code sharing, why would I use this verse getting a Linode instance and installing git there. Private code sharing. You have to install something like gitolite (see my other comment) to do private code sharing with git on a VPS, or you'd have to create a system-level user for every person you want to share code with.
- joshfinnie 15y agoWebfaction actually allows you to create a git repo with web interface that can be shared privately. It is one of their "one-click" installations and I have been pretty happy with it for my limited use.
- veyron 15y agoIs there a way to link this with a project management tool like basecamp?
- fnando 15y agoNot yet! Basecamp and some others tools like Pivotal Tracker will be integrated at the right time. ;)
- fizx 15y agoFrom another perspective, Heroku has unlimited free git hosting that happens to optionally serve webapps.
- bad_user 15y agoGitHub is also a free hosting service for static websites, that happens to optionally host git projects :)
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- mrcharles 15y agoI just use bitbucket.org + Mercurial. More than enough for personal projects, or more, given that it's unlimited. The only limit is amount of users. Switching to Hg was a bit of work, but I've actually learned to like it more than Git. Really though, it's the same kind of thing and I just use both. So I ended up at bitbucket for the same reasons OP built a new site. My way was quicker though.
- superkarn 15y agoHis way is bringing in money. I use bitbucket, too, because of the unlimited private repositories.
- xbryanx 15y agoSo wish I could use bitbucket, but switching off Git isn't an option for our team.
- asymmetric 15y agoYou can try hg-git[1] to keep using git, and then push to a hg repo[2]. [1]: http://hg-git.github.com/ http://hg-git.github.com/ [2]: http://traviscline.com/blog/2010/04/27/using-hg-git-to-work-in-git-and-push-to-hg/ http://traviscline.com/blog/2010/04/27/using-hg-git-to-work-...
- pnathan 15y agoI agree. I would love to use github more but I want private repositories.
- mrcharles 15y agoYes, same. I love all the effort they've put in to the web front end, but I'm not interested in their pay plans for private repos, which to me, is just too damn expensive. $12 a month for github repos with five collaborators and a piddly disc space limit, whereas I get five collabs and unlimited disk on bitbucket.
- asymmetric 15y ago
- zck 15y agoIt's Mercurial, not git, but bitbucket offers unlimited private repositories: https://bitbucket.org/plans https://bitbucket.org/plans
- bad_user 15y agoI configured a Git server on my EC2 micro-instance and just use that. I was a paying GitHub customer until I decided that I spent too much money on online subscriptions. But when I'll pay for a Git hosting service again, I'm going back to GitHub, as I'm still a happy user of their free account. GitHub rocks. Sure, competition is good, but I don't get what codeplane.com is offering, considering that configuring your own in-the-cloud repository is so easy on a VPS (that you're likely to have anyway and be left unused to its full potential otherwise).
- programminggeek 15y agoGood for you for building this and then charging for it. There certainly is a place in the market for what you are doing and the price you are doing it. Good job.
- fnando 15y agoThanks! ;)
- FlowerPower 15y agoI too wish you luck! What about security? If i sign up, is my code safe if I want to keep a repo only for me?
- fnando 15y agoI can say that's is pretty safe. Backup is not an issue: copies of all repositories are stored on S3, CloudFiles and Linode's backup solution. People can't access your repos, unless you allow them to.
- masnick 15y agoYou can set something like this up on any VPS with gitolite (https://github.com/sitaramc/gitolite https://github.com/sitaramc/gitolite) pretty easily. gitolite lets you set up very fine-grained per-user/repo/branch permissions, manage your users' SSH keys, and gives you nice clean git@git.you.com:repo-name access to your remotes. I've done this for myself with a $48/year VPS from prgmr.com specifically because I needed more private repos than Github could offer (my setup instructions are here: https://gist.github.com/1035834 https://gist.github.com/1035834). Granted, if codeplane.com existed six months ago I probably wouldn't have bothered with gitolite. It appears they do nice things for you like backups.
- mestudent 15y agoI do this (also on prgmr) and manage backups with tarsnap+cron which with all my small repos costs nearly nothing even if I don't clean up old tarsnap archives.
- gvb 15y ago...or gitosis http://scie.nti.st/2007/11/14/hosting-git-repositories-the-easy-and-secure-way http://scie.nti.st/2007/11/14/hosting-git-repositories-the-e... Gitosis does not have as fine grained control as gitolite nor is it as well documented (config file errors are hard to debug), but it works well within its limitations. Both are now available as Debian/Ubuntu packages (gitolite was not when I started using gitosis). The other obvious difference is that gitolite is written in Perl and gitosis is written in Python. This should be a superficial difference, but sometimes the world isn't rational.
- bronson 15y agoGitosis development is stone dead afaict. I would not suggest using it for new deploys.
- fr0sty 15y agoOne other thing to point out is that Gitosis is abandonware (last commit was made in September of 2009). Gitolite on the otherhand is under active development, the documentation is great, and the author is generally available on the #git channel as are many other active users of the software.
- jamesgeck0 15y agoWhat does the UI actually look like? Is it just the list of repositories? I'd be more likely to spend money if there was a tour, or an example project I could look at, or an annotated example session with the CLI tool.
- fnando 15y agoYeah, I'm working on it! Just had to do some things first before really working on "selling the product".
- Stuk 15y agoYep, before I would even consider paying I want to see the docs for the command line tool, and at least a few screenshots of the web interface! I does look good from what info is available though.
- powellc 15y agoWhile I'd understand this if the complaint was that gitorious is too complicated to setup and host, CodePlane doesn't seem to offer the rich web interface github and gitorious do. In the absence of that, how difficult is it to setup gitolite on a cheap VPS account? I mean, if you primarily use CLI interfaces anyway. Need redundancy because those fly-by-night VPS providers disappear? Fine, pick up another VPS from lowendbox.com and rsync your git home directory. Done and done. On a side note, you could consider all your repos on your primary machine your "backup," as with a relatively static IP from a cable or DSL account you can push and pull to your hearts delight from your home box. Not great for collab, but sometimes I feel like the D in DVCS gets forgotten about.
- Zolomon 15y agohttp://blog.codeplane.com/ http://blog.codeplane.com/
- tuna 15y agoI liked that I dont need to do this setup myself and that I can integrate with S3.
- fnando 15y agoExactly my point! People can always set up their own stuff. The question is "is it worth?"
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- nicpottier 15y agoGithub's pricing model really is a painpoint for little consulting shops. We drive next to no traffic and storage on there, but we do a few projects every quarter. Haven't quite outgrown our paid plan yet, but we will in a bit. Just wish Github would revise their pricing to support peeps like us, I hate to use different interfaces. May choose to just archive things to codeplane until then, keeping things we are actively developing on github.
- trustfundbaby 15y agoTry unfuddle, their hosting includes both svn and git ... doesn't have most of the thrills and spills of github but I find their pricing very reasonable.
- arturadib 15y agoI think CodePlane is very cool, but it seems to solve a different problem than the one advertised on the blog. To save my repos "for posterity" on Github without incurring a $100/month bill, I simply create a master repo (say old-projects/) with all my unused repos in it. On the other hand CodePlane seems to be a great solution for collaborative work on lots of private repos. This can save big bucks. I love to see projects like this. I hope it gains some traction and forces Github to change their business model to a more manageable per-GB price.
- sant0sk1 15y agoThe one-repo-for-old-projects solution works in some cases, but not really for mine. As a contract developer I often have projects that are under active development for a few months and then go into "maintenance mode". In this case I want separate repos for when maintenance needs to happen. Otherwise that one repo is a mess. I believe this is the kind of problem that CodePlane solves. And I agree with you that its great to see projects like this present competition and make GitHub better in the long run.
- arturadib 15y agoIt's a hack of course, but if the changes are really that occasional, the pain is negligible: all you need to do is to commit twice for every project change (once for a sub-directory containing the project repo, once for the root repo). If a project becomes active again, simply take it out of the master repo and push it as a new repo. It's really not that bad. But then again, things change if you have collaborators...
- lucian1900 15y agoCan't you just use branches for this? Sugar code (git.sugarlabs.org) generally gets a new branch for each major release, which can be maintained separately from master.
- fnando 15y agoI wanted to solve both problems. I have 40+ repos, but about 50% are archives only. So, with 2GB I can store them and I also work on my current projects.
- brown9-2 15y agoThe title of the page at www.codeplane.com is "Unlimited private Git hosting", yet it appears that you are limited to 2GB of repositories for your $9/month. How is this unlimited? Are there other plans that you can sign up for? If so they seem impossible to find on the site.
- thorax 15y agoYeah, it's always hard when people say "unlimited". Here I believe they mean unlimited users and unlimited repositories within the 2GB.
- fnando 15y agoMaybe putting something like "(Virtually) Unlimited private Git hosting"?
- jimktrains2 15y agoI think he's referring to the absence of a limit on the actual number of repos, which is only bound by the space given. If you can git 1000 repos in there, good for you, he doesn't care. Granted, something like "2GB private git hosting" might be more accurate.
- micheljansen 15y agoWhile I do agree that Github leaves space for a model like this, I think the value of Github is that it offers a great community and awesome toolset (online and offline). Then I read this: "I also wanted to do almost everything from my terminal, so I built a CLI, that you can use to manage repositories, public keys and collaborators. For daily usage, you probably won't have to go to our web interface ever again, and that's awesome!" And I think "that's what I have with Gitosis on my VPS" (Gitosis uses git to manage user accounts and keys, so it pretty much doesn't get simpler than that). Companies pay for Github for the tools, developers who use CLI are probably not that interested in forking $9 a month for something they already have. Just my two cents, but I wish you the best of luck :)
- fnando 15y agoYeah! One can always set up the whole thing, but for small shops and freelancers it makes no sense to manage something like this. Maybe for hackers like us... ;)
- StavrosK 15y agoWho did your design? It's beautiful! Who does all these amazing designs?
- micheljansen 15y agoSure, at least you take the worry of server management away, but I think your focus on CLI might not be well justified, as existing CLI tools are already very good and incredibly easy to set-up (aptitude install gitosis; git clone git@myserver.org:gitosis admin; done!) :)
- patrickod 15y agoGreat looking product and very much like your way of thinking in assigning space and not a set number of repos. I'm a github user and have been for a while but such competition would make me reconsider in the future. best of luck with it.
- kevinburke 15y agoBitbucket offers unlimited numbers of repos for free (they only care about number of committers).
- sktrdie 15y agohow do these startups get beautiful page designs? hiring those level of designers would require lots of $$ if you ask me.
- mwarkentin 15y agoHere's one way: http://themeforest.net/ http://themeforest.net/
- epaulson 15y agoIt's not just the blog, but the main page layout and graphical assets look great too, and doesn't seem to be some 3rd party theme.
- fnando 15y agoActually, I did it by myself. I have a BS, but I always liked design and I've being doing my own designs through the years! ;)
- rsobers 15y agoFog Creek has a product called Kiln, which is like Github, but is based on Mercurial. It's very polished and has lots of great features that focus on private repository management (but has public repos, too). It's free for up to 2 users. Unlimited repos and disk space.
- xbryanx 15y agoI am currently frustrated with Github's private repository hosting plans. When I switched from SVN to Git, what was initially one repository became six, because of Git's "you can't checkout part of a repo" philosophy. So now, I have to buy a fairly expensive plan even though my usage is pretty small. Cheers, to you for adding some competition to the marketplace. I hope it provides some pricing pressure on Github one of these days.
- swah 15y agoJust curious... are you brazilian?
- dlikhten 15y agoplease note: slsapp.com already has features you ask for. You have lots of archive repos. You are allowed (even on free account) unlimited view-only repositories and they charge mainly by space/active repos. However I still see the value in this service, and I like it.
- oceanician 15y agoI think this site is better value: http://www.svnrepository.com http://www.svnrepository.com However you may well have something on the keeping it simpler approach. I'm very happy that more people are going to compete with github :)
- cool-RR 15y agoI think that anyone who complains about GitHub's price has gotten way too spoiled, or perhaps underestimates the amount of effort required to maintain a service of that quality and reliability. I find this to be another symptom of HN tunnel vision.
- fnando 15y agoNobody says that! I love Github. I used to have a paid account. I still have 100+ repositories in there. I just can't afford Github for my private repositories, which I think it's not for me anymore.
- cool-RR 15y agoIf you've got 40 private repos, I assume you're at the very least a moderately experienced professional programmer. Let's say for the sake of a figure that you charge a low price of $50 per hour. So buying a GitHub Gold account is like two hours of extra work per month for you, and you'll probably have to spend more than that on CodePlane (as a user, not developer) because it's simply not as battle-tested and extensive as GitHub. So I don't think it's worth it.
- Lewisham 15y agoYou're reading a lot into one assumption you've made. I'm a grad student. I try out lots of little things. I want to keep them, but I don't want them just on my hard drive (I like them to be available on the Internets). GitHub forces me to open-source those small projects, and I'm usually fine with this, but lots of other people aren't. And if he can offer it for $9, then why shouldn't he? Your complaint is that his potential customers should pay more, because you think GitHub has better features, which he may or may not need. That doesn't make any sense. Having different offers and different price points makes sense, so I really don't see why you are knocking the OP for making something that fits his (and presumably others) needs.
- cool-RR 15y ago
- udoprog 15y agoI don't get it, why is setting up a private git repository on your own server a hassle? Assuming you have ssh access (compacted for clarity): ssh server "git init --bare repo/project.git" git clone server:repo/project.git Am I missing something? EDIT: mkdir superfluous
- JonnieCache 15y agoThat doesn't handle the multi-user authentication/authorisation.
- udoprog 15y agoYes it does, however it doesn't provide granularity for multiple users of the same server, and unless you go for vanilla could be troublesome to customize through something like pam. I simply commented on the non-issue with creating private repositories. A service like this is nice if you don't have the ability or time to setup your own environments, but in my opinion could be risking a very slim user scenario.
- mechanical_fish 15y agoI don't understand this use case: These projects are mainly side projects, or small freelance jobs I've done through the years, and I want to save them for posterity; who knows when I'll need them, right? My solution to this problem is called tar. Just clone the Git repos to /tmp, tar up the results, and push the tarball to S3. Done. Archived for posterity for a few cents per month. This isn't SVN anymore: It doesn't take special voodoo to host a repo. If nobody needs to push or pull from a repo, tar it up and archive it. If one person needs to push and pull from a repo, store it on that person's local hard drive (with backups, of course). If two people need to push and pull from a repo... Well, this is no longer an archive for posterity, this is an active project, and can the team really not afford to pay Github something like $5 per month per repo?
- jpeterson 15y agoI imagine part of the use case is "quickly and easily getting back to a snippet within one of those old files", in which case the tarball and archive method won't really work.
- bruceboughton 15y agoHe's talking about tarring a local git repository. You can still use all the git history stuff, you're just backing up using tar rather than via git push/pull.
- rawsyntax 15y agoI keep a local copy of old git repos on my harddrive. I backup my harddrive religiously. Provided you don't have giant repos, this works well
- frederickcook 15y agothis is an active project, and can the team really not afford to pay Github something like $5 per month per repo? This is the OP's complaint: once you're over 20 private repositories, you're paying $100/month. He wants stupid-simple, hosted, private git repositories, and lots of them. He probably ran a bunch of numbers on servers, storage, and bandwidth, and found that he run a simple, low-cost hosted git solution (without all the fancy web features) at a fraction the cost. There was an opportunity in the market to make a simple, low-cost competitor to github, and he built it. Kudos.
- senthilnayagam 15y agoI run a services company. I am near my limit for 125 private projects with mega plan. I have 100+ private repositories,with about 100 collaborators(many are my clients) and consume just 2.3 gb and pay 100$/month, about 15-20 of the projects are live/active, others are projects which have been delivered or on hold. Organization as a concept was brought pretty recently on github, my account dates 2008, charging double for just that is not attractive. I love github, they are coming with awesome features, but in terms of certain features many service firms need, a way to archive the project not counting them for active projects. github is lacking. instead of doubling the service plan every 6-9 months I am willing to give the competing git hosting services a try
- Create 15y agohttp://www.gitorious.org/ http://www.gitorious.org/
- thomasfl 15y agoGitorious is both a free site and an open sourced project web app. Strange this hasn't been mentioned before in this thread.
- grandalf 15y agoThis is a very desirable use case. For those who don't get it, I'd say the following: - it's nice to use git for all the small side projects one creates, but putting all of them on github is crazy expensive if you like keeping your musings private (though not necessarily b/c you're committed to a closed source ideology :) - the cost factor creates an incentive to misuse git (not using submodules where appropriate) just to save money. - There are a lot of awesome Git UI programs that run locally on my laptop, gitk is one. - FWIW his fills the niche between github and gist.
- lucian1900 15y agoYour first two reasons, and liking hg, is why I prefer bitbucket.
- pdenya 15y agoSame feature set as http://repositoryhosting.com http://repositoryhosting.com with a higher price point (they're at $6/month now for 2GB). They don't have a CLI or anything as far as I know but they do offer more storage space at $1/GB/month which is pretty nice if you just need a little extra.
- slig 15y ago+1 for RH. They are awesome and I couldn't be happier. I've never had problems except when AWS went down. Also, they offer git, mercurial and SVN.
- eitland 15y agoAnd you get trac for free.
- qeorge 15y agoRH is awesome. We eventually switched to Unfuddle for the time tracking, but Repository Hosting is still one of the best deals available, IMHO.
- karanbhangui 15y agoHave been using these guys for a year or more now, at 3 different companies. Amazingly responsive support. Best thing I've ever spent 6 bucks on.
- n9com 15y agofyi - it's already been done few years ago, http://repositoryhosting.com/ http://repositoryhosting.com/
- hunterp 15y agoI'm still learning github after subversion. I don't believe there is enough mindshare left in this space.
- adharmad 15y agoI use rsync.net with git: http://blog.kozubik.com/john_kozubik/2010/02/git-and-subversion-support-at-rsyncnet.html http://blog.kozubik.com/john_kozubik/2010/02/git-and-subvers... Works pretty well.
- Limes102 15y agoReally beautiful and easy to use. Very impressed!
- js4all 15y agoI like the idea. If there is a niche for a git hosting alternative, you guys have found it at the right time. I wish you all the best.
- fnando 15y agoThanks! ;)
- trustfundbaby 15y agoMore screenshots of the web interface (or a walkthrough video) would be nice.
- andrewnez 15y agoIf your developers are spending more than 5 minutes a month managing, monitoring and looking after their repositories then you are doing it wrong. Github's monthly fees are so much cheaper than the cost of your developers time and happiness.
- edw 15y agoI hadn't gotten around to commenting, and I'm glad it took me a while, because while I first went to Codeplane and set up a trial account, pushed my Github private repos therem and downgraded my account from a paid to an unpaid account — thereby netting myself a free cheap beer a month — I went on to read some of the comments here, set up gitosis, and am now free of any sort of paid git hosting fees beyond my existing Linode virtualized server — upgrading my free monthly drink from a PBR to a Hendrick's martini. Thank you, fellow Hacker News citizens.
- atrain34 15y ago(honestly afraid to comment, but what the hell.) i know its not git, but bitbucket (mercurial, same type of dvcs as github) has free private and unlimited repository hosting.
- whather 15y agoI would make the dotted homepage background a little fainter. It makes the text a little hard to read and I find myself squinting.
- sirn 15y agoYour blogpost mentioned using Git with Dropbox was too much of a hassle, could you elaborate why? I want to know since all my private repos are `git init --bare` within Dropbox directory, which works very well so far. What's the main benefit if I were to switch to Codeplane?
- fnando 15y agoMy problem with Dropbox was when I had to share a repo with someone. How to do that? I created a shared folder. And then it becomes really hard to manage all this stuff. For 1-person usage, Dropbox works really great.
- flocial 15y agoI've always wondered about this. The real expenses are disk space and bandwidth. I don't understand how they can't just provide a space-based plan (oh yeah, that would cut into high margins). It's a wonderful service and they've done so much to keep many open source projects from stagnating. They outshine SourceForge and Google Code by a large margin. Still, if BitBucket was git, I might migrate my stuff. The thing is "social coding" isn't that big of a plus for your own private stuff. I definitely see value in a service like this.
- jvandenbroeck 15y agoThe Github price structure might not be the best for this use case. But Github is simply the best to manage your repo's, I don't think this is going to change anytime soon. It might be a better idea for Github to allow projects to be archived.
- j15e 15y agoI like repositoryhosting.com for 6$/month you get unlimited users/repositories and support for git, svn, hg
- shapeshed 15y agoGit is simple enough to set up with some basic unix skills and with something like gitosis you can manage access to repos. GitHub has added many more features and make collaborating super simple. Totally worth it IMHO. Git is not just Github though.
- hunvreus 15y agoInteresting; I actually have an Github organization account for my company but I could definitely see myself using that service. I could easily Gitosis or Gitolite on one of my instances but tend to prefer focusing our sysadmin man power on our products and clients.
- jarin 15y agoI just use Assembla for "dead" projects. Unlimited free Git repos, as long as you don't need any of the fancy management stuff: http://offers.assembla.com/free-git-repo/ http://offers.assembla.com/free-git-repo/
- happypeter 15y agoThanks for building a low cost alternative. Here is my advice. What github looks charming to me is the wonderful service for free plan users. I think this is wise, build a huge audience, and then "out-teach" them to be their potential customer. Success comes after the fame.
- rs 15y agoThere is http://xp-dev.com http://xp-dev.com for unlimited repos as well
- tommoor 15y agoGreat idea, well executed - im sure you will do well!