@ jambarama:

LOL! Pastebin – the preferred source control suite of all 1337 h4x0rz and anon skript kiddies.

Haha, what joker voted for Pastebin?

icebrain wrote:

I too have some repositories I want to keep closed, but I’ll probably install Gitorious on my home server instead.

I was not aware of Glitorious. Thanks.

icebrain wrote:

Oops, I meant gitosis, not Gitorious.

Oh… Freudian slip maybe? Because Gitorious sounds a bit similar to another word that starts with Cli… ;)

@ Joshua Kehn:

Nice. I’m learning about all kinds of new project sites.

@ Chris Wellons:

I know, the GitHub pages thing is crazy. I still can’t believe you are hosting an entire blog on it. :)

@ Ron:

I just bought a new car. I’m done buying new stuff for a while. :P

More seriously though, I just don’t care enough about any of my projects to pay for private repository. I’d much rather set up my own git and/or svn repo on one of the servers I’m already paying for and go with that.

@ Joshua Kehn:

Yeah. If you are using it mostly for your own code and not collaborating with anyone it is a bit of an overkill.

@ Ron:

They are only reasonable for small modular teams with few projects.

Any reason to not use github private repo’s? Sure they cost but they were resonable iirc

I’m going to have to cheer for GitHub, since they’re hosting my entire blog (except for Disqus comments) at no cost to me — including no ads — making GitHub Pages their “killer app.” But you already know about that, Luke.

Choosing a second favorite from those the remaining two would be difficult for me. Gitorious, as a host, would really be my second favorite. I really like the model that GitHub, Gitorious, and BitBucket use. No single user technically controls a project. Leadership is de facto, determined by the community through its own self-organization. Contributing to a project requires no special permission. You just fork, make your commits, and make a pull request. Even if it’s not accepted, your changes are still out there, still associated with the project.

Google Code is a lot more traditional, more monolithic, and less supportive of that model. Even though they support decentralized SCM, they still aren’t taking advantage of it. BitBucket does, but, as you stated, it’s built around Mercurial, which I’m not really interested in using.

However, I’m not too picky, so long as you don’t use SourceForge! Bleh!

As icebrain mentioned, gitosis is great for private repositories. I did that before I changed hosts. You’re using a virtualized host now, right? That means you could be using gitosis really easily. All you need is a dedicated shell account.

Assembla offers free private hosting with unlimited users. It doesn’t have as nice an interface but it is private.

Oops, I meant gitosis, not Gitorious. Although a simple git repository over SSH works fine too.

You can use git with a mercurial remote repo, there are such bridges; it’s what I do nowadays with SVN. Of course, I use the command line version since I’m on Linux.

I too have some repositories I want to keep closed, but I’ll probably install Gitorious on my home server instead. Services like Github are nice to share the code, but if the code is for my eyes only there’s really no reason to use them.