Sunday, November 1, 2009

Setting up a git repo

I did some research on hosted git repositories. Github was the first solution I looked at. I might end up going with it at some point, but I didn't want to spend the money right now.

I spoke to some people on IRC and they suggested the following:

http://www.projectlocker.com/
https://indefero.net/
http://gitfarm.appspot.com/

These solutions offer free hosting accounts for private repositories. Some of them are good for starting a code base until it gets bigger or needs more users. Then you'll need to upgrade to a pay account.

I finally decided to host my own repository. I followed the instructions on the following page:

Hosting Git repositories, The Easy (and Secure) Way

The only problem I ran into was that I had to use 'sudo' to run the install on Ubuntu (hardy). Otherwise, the instructions were great.

Later I found another page which looks like it was a copy and paste from the first set of instructions, but it had a couple pieces of additional information:

http://blog.agdunn.net/?p=277

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