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Does anyone know of a simple utility to host a remote on your local machine so that a small team can take advantage of git's DVCS in the event that a service like GitHub goes down?
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> But git is designed to be distributed and your workflow can be partition tolerant. but issues are not distributed, as an example.
They are. $ git add . $ git commit -m 'fixing #23'
btw the auto-linking auto-fixing commit syntax is just a local convention, which isn't even compatible between the 2 biggest players, see https://github.com/zzzeek/alembic/ and https://bitbucket.org/zzzeek/alembic/commits/all for example reference.
So this makes you basically safe from DDoS-attacks, since you host it yourself, and costs much less than enterprise GitHub installation (which is $50K/year for up to 20 people). Judging by screenshots it seems pretty similar to GitHub—although, of course, closer to BitBucket. Haven't tried it myself yet.
I love how we put this on HN. Most likely everybody who sees this already knows about it - that's why their here (they can't work)
Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't there very little someone can do to mitigate a DDoS attack? Github just happens to be a very large target; BitBucket or alternatives are just as vulnerable.
The DDoS-proof solution is to put your repo on your own infrastructure.
And we employee such creative idiots
:-)
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If you have a co-worker with full copy of repository, isn't it already somewhat distributed? Of course it is not all attached to network. The real problem that we should be talking about is - Pull request based workflow many companies (including mine) have adopted. Which doesn't work when github goes offline. I hear from lot of teams, they have switched to using github issues for project managment entirely, so as pul…
After using Jira for a year (with Grasshopper), I can't imagine a company with more than a few developers maintaining everything with github issues. shudder But yes, you are right. Being able to copy it from my neighbor is nice.
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The enterprise version of GitHub might be a middle ground.
GitHub enterprise has absolutely no dependencies on the mother ship, except for expiring license packs. And, in my experience, they'll very freely give you 1-2 month temporary packs, even if you're late with the renewals. Very good customer service.
Does anyone know of a simple utility to host a remote on your local machine so that a small team can take advantage of git's DVCS in the event that a service like GitHub goes down?
No seriously, that is the simplest thing to use and punches right through any firewall, anywhere. Instead of git push, do this:
tar cvf project.tgz .git
mail -a project.tgz team@example.net
Subject: Pull request #9042
Please pull master branch from attached
git repository, it fixes all the things.
^D
Other than that, any file server will work. Apache, nginx, samba (just mount it), rsync, even *ftpd.
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GitHub enterprise has absolutely no dependencies on the mother ship, except for expiring license packs. And, in my experience, they'll very freely give you 1-2 month temporary packs, even if you're late with the renewals. Very good customer service.
Gitlab is easy to set up and it works really well. It has a much cleaner and pleasant interface as well (especially since GitHub ruined theirs about a month ago).