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Considering i could keep my private repo from the beta until i accidentally deleted it (empty repo) this is a good deal for us that do not use github enough to
by flexd 16y ago
Considering i could keep my private repo from the beta until i accidentally deleted it (empty repo) this is a good deal for us that do not use github enough to warrant paying monthly but does appreciate it. I just made my self 5 private empty repoes named private1-5. I can just rename them and put them to use when i need them and most likely they will persist (or just become public?) when the free month runs out. Not that i wouldn't want to pay GitHub for their awesome service but when you're a unemployed student with bills to pay i'd rather have food on my table one more day than private repos.
Should probably add that i would pay for a plan if i needed private repos, but this is nice since i get stuff i don't need and don't have to pay for. Freebies are awesome :-)
- xiongchiamiov 16y agoCheck out gitosis. It's a little bit of a pain to get set up correctly, but once you've done that, adding new repositories is a breeze. School projects tend to be proliferous and need to be private, which doesn't mesh well with GitHub. I'm mostly just paying them for a micro plan because I think the service is cool.
- nuclear_eclipse 16y agogitolite is a much-improved fork of gitosis, "backed" by Fedora for use in their repos, and IMO is much easier and nicer to setup to configure.
- xiongchiamiov 16y agoAh, thanks. We just restructured our servers in my house, so I need to move gitosis over to a different machine anyway. Might as well try out gitolite instead.
- moogatronic 16y agoGitolite has very easy to follow instructions to get it up and running. (Hosted at Github!) Also interesting is that VPS account + Gitolite is cheaper (perhaps more practical for smallish businesses - if you're only interested in hosting git repos) than a Github account.
- cherring 16y agoMaybe it is cheaper .... but maybe not in terms of time as you are now responsible for maintaining said server and keeping it up. I am the team lead of a small 3 dev team, we manage about 9 applications that all tie together and were self hosting git, until the server melted down and they didn't have a replacement PC for us to put it onto, and a bug fix got held up for almost two days because we couldn't deploy the bastard. Finally I convinced the powers that be that $20 a month for GitHub was money well spent and we have never looked back.
- flexd 16y agoHmm that is quite smart yeah. The smallest Linode VPS accounts are actually quite cheap yeah.. I see they have removed their smallest instance though. But i guess any other good VPS host will work. Hosting git repoes does not exactly take a lot of oompfh.
- flexd 16y agoAh cool, combining that with those free one year EC2 instances would get you free and secure git hosting for a year. Don't you just love free offers?
- Dobbs 16y agoIn the comments on the blog they noted that they will lock the repositories when the trial expires.
- flexd 16y agoAha, so much for my plan then eh? Was just counting on what i experienced having a account from whenever the beta started. :-) Clever move by them.