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Ask HN: Private Git repo hosting?

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Re: Ask HN: Private Git repo hosting?

#12
I use my own git repo. I have a very small digitalocean server as well as a mac. I rsync the repos for backup. I have used github a bit but in my admittedly limited experience I see no benefit and therefore no need for anything else. Really it just seems trivial.

Re: Ask HN: Private Git repo hosting?

#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!

Re: Ask HN: Private Git repo hosting?

#20

Paid GitHub. It's great, not really expensive, almost every developer knows how it works. Simply setting up your own Git repo would be more expensive than a few months of GitHub/BitBucket subscription.

I'm not arguing about GitHub being great, but it really only takes a few minutes to spin up an EC2 instance and add a few user accounts with a shared folder. That's really all that's required to set up a shared repo.
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