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Re: Ask HN: Private Git repo hosting?

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Post by serve_yay »

taspeotis wrote: post #16

Atlassian Stash [1]. Gets regular updates and it plays nicely with JIRA and Bamboo. [1] https://www.atlassian.com/software/stash/whats-new

It works but it's not great. It's rather slow and the interface leaves some things to be desired (for example, you can't close a pull request without letting Stash merge it for you).

Re: Ask HN: Private Git repo hosting?

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Post by jibsen »

Free BitBucket for private repos, free GitHub for open source projects.

I would have considered the micro plan if it weren't for the 5 repo limit -- I am (sadly) not rich enough to pay them just for being nice if I can get the number of private repos I need for free elsewhere.

Re: Ask HN: Private Git repo hosting?

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Post by rokche123 »

nsfmc wrote: post #17

if you already have a tiny vps running somewhere, take a look at gitolite. it's free, it supports multiple users, allows for complex access control, but has a tiny bit of a learning curve attached to it. on the upside, you learn a bunch about ssh in the process!

+1 for Gitolite. It is not that hard, more like an afternoon spent figuring things out. Great access control. It has no interface and no pull requests but that is not what git is about after all.

Re: Ask HN: Private Git repo hosting?

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Post by moepstar »

Shorel wrote: post #56

I use Gogs. Fast, very low resource usage, easy to install.

I've set up a small-ish Gogs server on a RPi and i beg to differ on the "easy to install" - this might be true if you can just get the packages and install it, but once you try to manually set it up you'll see that the docs are lacking, big time.

And even if you've got it all set up: how are you supposed to update your install? IIRC, i've read somewhere that you're supposed to wipe & reinstall the whole thing (take this with a grain of salt, haven't used my install that much as Gogs is still way buggier than, say, GitLab).

Re: Ask HN: Private Git repo hosting?

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Post by drinchev »

webmaven wrote: post #10
drinchev wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I had a gitlab instance on one of my computers that is online 24/7. It is a good solution, but my system was compromised by exploiting ruby / gitshell . Also it took way too much system resources to operate. Of course it's my responsibility to patch software I'm using, but after considering how much time I would need to run gitlab on my own host ( incl. server upgrade, security configuration, may be kernel + docker i…

Had you considered GitLab's free hosting?

I didn't consider hosting from GitLab at all. The thing I considered was that GitLab is an open-source project, so I can modify it the way I want ( I actually contributed a super small patch ( https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlab-ci-runner/pull/16 ) .

Anyway free hosting for me for a platform that you can install on your server has always been a no-option, because I want to control the content.

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