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GitHaven, an open source clone of GitHub

60 points by icefox 15y ago

Zolomon 15y ago
Seems like it's lacking in activity, nothing has happened for a year.
- icefox 15y ago
  My work legal department decided it was a conflict of interest (we use Git) and forbid me from working on it anymore.* So I open sourced it in the hopes that others besides just me (I run it at home) could find some value and maybe they would fork it and continue on with it. * Ironically GitHaven's original goal was a solution that could be installed inside corporate firewalls, but without the cost of GitHub:Fi.
  - scg 15y ago
    > My work legal department decided it was a conflict of interest (we use Git) and forbid me from working on it anymore. Can you expand on this? It sounds so incredibly stupid that I'm not sure I got it right.
    - icefox 15y ago
      I started to get involved with the Git Servers at work (Not the primary admins or anything, just helping them not make the wrong choices <cough>gitorious</cough>). After that legal said if I do any GitHaven stuff on my own time from then on they would own it.
      - 32321215 15y ago
        scg is right, this is indeed incredibly stupid. How can they own something you make in your spare time.
        pestaa 15y ago
        In the video game industry this is rather common -- developers can be contractually forced to hand over their pet projects to the company they work for.
        32321215 15y ago
        This is the most shocking thing I heard this hour.
        JonAtkinson 15y ago
        I don't understand why people don't reject their employment contracts when they include this sort of dumb shit. An employment contract is a negotiation.
        kurige 15y ago
        Maybe... they want a job and need the money? Not everybody here at HN seems to realize that negotiation is not always appropriate when your first priority is to get a job. Thankfully I've never been in that sort of situation, but I've certainly been desperate enough in the past where I would have happily signed if it didn't look like they would be willing to "bend the rules" for me.
        32321215 15y ago
        Or maybe they just love the job and think that the legal dept is a dick but that does not overshadow their love of the work being done at this company.
        bmelton 15y ago
        I signed a similar clause, and while I probably could have balked and gone elsewhere, it is literally the only aspect of my employment that I don't like. The people I work with are brilliant (which I knew going in), I am paid very fairly, my bonuses are tied directly to my personal performance, I have flexible hours, and complete autonomy to do whatever I need to get my job done. If I _need_ to purchase a $10,000 server to do my job, I just buy one and expense it at the end of the month. I _might_ have to explain the need when someone sees the expense, but that's par for the course. If I need to buy a USB drive to get my work done, or a relevant book, nobody will bat an eye at it. Also, I haven't chanced it, but I'm guessing that my employer would only exercise control if I built something related or tangential to our core product. If I made an IOS game, I'm pretty sure I get to keep it... but if I build a widget that makes the support or administration of our core product more efficient to use, I'm guessing I'd have a hard time starting my own business around it without my current employer pulling out the lawyers.
      - gaustin 15y ago
        What are the problems that you see with Gitorious? I just set it up at work and it went very smoothly. I'd like to torpedo it before we actually start using it, if it's going to be a problem.
        icefox 15y ago
        I have a long laundry list of issues, but it really came down to: Every few months I ended up spending a whole day fixing the server for one reason or another. I wasn't expecting the server to go down so much. Gitolite is a excellent counter example of something very simple you can set up, keep upgrading and it just keeps working. After the fact that it was more effort than expected to keep it running I found the UI frustrating and annoying. This was all part of the reason I started GitHaven.
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ByteMuse 15y ago
GitHaven.com is down for me. I would be a lot more interested if a demo was up; I have been looking for something like this project.
- icefox 15y ago
  http://git.meyerhome.net:8080/ http://git.meyerhome.net:8080/ is my little arm box that is running it that you can at least check it out (warning: it is just a low end arm dev board, it probably will go down). I let GitHaven.com elapse when I realized I wouldn't be able to continue working on the project. Edit: fyi GitHaven supports private repos which are the majority of the repos on my home server which you can't see (sorry!). The others were more tests or repos that are too huge (above the 300MB limit) to put on GitHub.com
  - rgbrgb 15y ago
    Thanks for posting that. I definitely like the look of Gitlab a lot better.
augustl 15y ago
I'd just like to add that since Git supports SSH, it's pretty easy to set up git repos on any server. `cd ~; mkdir myrepo.git; cd myrepo.git; git init --bare`. Then you can just `git push username@server.com:myrepo.git`. This of course doesn't give you a web UI for creating repositories. And everyone with access to `username` on the server can access all the repositories.
- gks 15y ago
  Since Bitbucket now supports Git I'd say that's a better option for anyone that just wants to keep their repos somewhere. Either way is great, but Bitbucket makes it easier for sharing if that's needed.
DanielRibeiro 15y ago
Interesting. Yesterday this other one (Gitlab) showed up on HN as well: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3114447 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3114447
iFire 15y ago
AGPL means I can't use this.
- izak30 15y ago
  That's usually my first reaction to the AGPL -- Because most open source projects I try to file away as "This might be useful for XYZ client, or in a project that does UUU" I'm not sure that this fits in that criteria, I could imagine installing this on a server, unmodified, and just for internal use. You're not breaking the license from my understanding, and you got some use without selling or modifying it. This seems like the only time that I'm interested in something that's AGPL. I get most frustrated when things like libraries or widgets are marked as AGPL.
  - iFire 15y ago
    I'm comparing it to GitLabs which is mit. This is why I have no interest. I'm working on issue 13. http://gitlabhq.com/ http://gitlabhq.com/
  - iFire 15y ago
    If I write a git pre-commit script for my repo in githaven, is that forced to be agpl? I'm using githaven and yes. If I want Geckoboard to show a chart of how many githaven commit per day I did, do I need to agpl geckoboard.com? I don't know. I'm not a lawyer. This is my interpretation and I would like comments. <gnu.org> In AGPLv3, what counts as “interacting with [the software] remotely through a computer network?” <gnu.org> If the program is expressly designed to accept user requests and send responses over a network, then it meets these criteria. Common examples of programs that would fall into this category include web and mail servers, interactive web-based applications, and servers for games that are played online.
    - icefox 15y ago
      Nitpick: Well I would say precommit hooks interact with git and not githaven.
    - iFire 15y ago

60 points by icefox 15y ago

Zolomon 15y ago

Seems like it's lacking in activity, nothing has happened for a year.

icefox 15y ago
My work legal department decided it was a conflict of interest (we use Git) and forbid me from working on it anymore.* So I open sourced it in the hopes that others besides just me (I run it at home) could find some value and maybe they would fork it and continue on with it. * Ironically GitHaven's original goal was a solution that could be installed inside corporate firewalls, but without the cost of GitHub:Fi.
- scg 15y ago
  > My work legal department decided it was a conflict of interest (we use Git) and forbid me from working on it anymore. Can you expand on this? It sounds so incredibly stupid that I'm not sure I got it right.
  - icefox 15y ago
    I started to get involved with the Git Servers at work (Not the primary admins or anything, just helping them not make the wrong choices <cough>gitorious</cough>). After that legal said if I do any GitHaven stuff on my own time from then on they would own it.
    - 32321215 15y ago
      scg is right, this is indeed incredibly stupid. How can they own something you make in your spare time.
      - pestaa 15y ago
        In the video game industry this is rather common -- developers can be contractually forced to hand over their pet projects to the company they work for.
        32321215 15y ago
        This is the most shocking thing I heard this hour.
        JonAtkinson 15y ago
        I don't understand why people don't reject their employment contracts when they include this sort of dumb shit. An employment contract is a negotiation.
        kurige 15y ago
        Maybe... they want a job and need the money? Not everybody here at HN seems to realize that negotiation is not always appropriate when your first priority is to get a job. Thankfully I've never been in that sort of situation, but I've certainly been desperate enough in the past where I would have happily signed if it didn't look like they would be willing to "bend the rules" for me.
        32321215 15y ago
        Or maybe they just love the job and think that the legal dept is a dick but that does not overshadow their love of the work being done at this company.
        bmelton 15y ago
        I signed a similar clause, and while I probably could have balked and gone elsewhere, it is literally the only aspect of my employment that I don't like. The people I work with are brilliant (which I knew going in), I am paid very fairly, my bonuses are tied directly to my personal performance, I have flexible hours, and complete autonomy to do whatever I need to get my job done. If I _need_ to purchase a $10,000 server to do my job, I just buy one and expense it at the end of the month. I _might_ have to explain the need when someone sees the expense, but that's par for the course. If I need to buy a USB drive to get my work done, or a relevant book, nobody will bat an eye at it. Also, I haven't chanced it, but I'm guessing that my employer would only exercise control if I built something related or tangential to our core product. If I made an IOS game, I'm pretty sure I get to keep it... but if I build a widget that makes the support or administration of our core product more efficient to use, I'm guessing I'd have a hard time starting my own business around it without my current employer pulling out the lawyers.
    - gaustin 15y ago
      What are the problems that you see with Gitorious? I just set it up at work and it went very smoothly. I'd like to torpedo it before we actually start using it, if it's going to be a problem.
      - icefox 15y ago
        I have a long laundry list of issues, but it really came down to: Every few months I ended up spending a whole day fixing the server for one reason or another. I wasn't expecting the server to go down so much. Gitolite is a excellent counter example of something very simple you can set up, keep upgrading and it just keeps working. After the fact that it was more effort than expected to keep it running I found the UI frustrating and annoying. This was all part of the reason I started GitHaven.
- deleted 15y ago
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ByteMuse 15y ago

GitHaven.com is down for me. I would be a lot more interested if a demo was up; I have been looking for something like this project.

icefox 15y ago
http://git.meyerhome.net:8080/ http://git.meyerhome.net:8080/ is my little arm box that is running it that you can at least check it out (warning: it is just a low end arm dev board, it probably will go down). I let GitHaven.com elapse when I realized I wouldn't be able to continue working on the project. Edit: fyi GitHaven supports private repos which are the majority of the repos on my home server which you can't see (sorry!). The others were more tests or repos that are too huge (above the 300MB limit) to put on GitHub.com
- rgbrgb 15y ago
  Thanks for posting that. I definitely like the look of Gitlab a lot better.

augustl 15y ago

I'd just like to add that since Git supports SSH, it's pretty easy to set up git repos on any server. `cd ~; mkdir myrepo.git; cd myrepo.git; git init --bare`. Then you can just `git push username@server.com:myrepo.git`. This of course doesn't give you a web UI for creating repositories. And everyone with access to `username` on the server can access all the repositories.

gks 15y ago
Since Bitbucket now supports Git I'd say that's a better option for anyone that just wants to keep their repos somewhere. Either way is great, but Bitbucket makes it easier for sharing if that's needed.

DanielRibeiro 15y ago

Interesting. Yesterday this other one (Gitlab) showed up on HN as well: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3114447 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3114447

iFire 15y ago

AGPL means I can't use this.

izak30 15y ago
That's usually my first reaction to the AGPL -- Because most open source projects I try to file away as "This might be useful for XYZ client, or in a project that does UUU" I'm not sure that this fits in that criteria, I could imagine installing this on a server, unmodified, and just for internal use. You're not breaking the license from my understanding, and you got some use without selling or modifying it. This seems like the only time that I'm interested in something that's AGPL. I get most frustrated when things like libraries or widgets are marked as AGPL.
- iFire 15y ago
  I'm comparing it to GitLabs which is mit. This is why I have no interest. I'm working on issue 13. http://gitlabhq.com/ http://gitlabhq.com/
- iFire 15y ago
  If I write a git pre-commit script for my repo in githaven, is that forced to be agpl? I'm using githaven and yes. If I want Geckoboard to show a chart of how many githaven commit per day I did, do I need to agpl geckoboard.com? I don't know. I'm not a lawyer. This is my interpretation and I would like comments. <gnu.org> In AGPLv3, what counts as “interacting with [the software] remotely through a computer network?” <gnu.org> If the program is expressly designed to accept user requests and send responses over a network, then it meets these criteria. Common examples of programs that would fall into this category include web and mail servers, interactive web-based applications, and servers for games that are played online.
  - icefox 15y ago
    Nitpick: Well I would say precommit hooks interact with git and not githaven.
  - iFire 15y ago