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Ask HN: Github or your own git server?
Informally I'm curious how people are using Git for new startups that aren't open source. Are you using Github, or setting up your own Git server?
- how_gauche 17y agoI'd never use Github if money was on the line, it's down all the time and source code is core competency stuff, you do it in-house. Gitosis + gitweb aren't that difficult to set up. There's also "Gitorious" but I tried to use it once and spent two days unsuccessfully trying to get it to work.
- cmelbye 17y agoI'm using GitHub. It may occasionally be down, but they have a really innovative new server architecture, and once they've ironed out the problems (which I believe they've almost done), it should be as stable as a rock. Plus, it's git so you have a full clone of the repository that you can work with even while it's down.
- jhancock 17y agoI use it for closed source work, but I consider it mostly a backup repo. It costs me $7 a month and I feel I get enough value from the many other projects I track to make it pay for itself as a one-stop interface.
- mbrubeck 17y agoThe last two companies I've worked at both use GitHub. There are more GitHub vs. self-hosting comparisons (including mine) in this earlier thread, with a focus on security: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=936187 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=936187