Ask HN: Private Git repo hosting?

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by webmaven • 12 years ago

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Do you use the paid GitHub plan, the free BitBucket plan, Gitlab, something else, or self-host?

Update: Removed the running totals. I'll summarize later, didn't expect this to be quite so popular.

jacquesm• 12 years ago

Paid github. And that's because I feel that when I pay for a service such as this they need to take my money in order to continue to survive. Anything else will sooner or later disappear.

rswail• 12 years ago

gitlab... easy to set up and easy to use.

drinchev3• 12 years ago

I had a gitlab instance on one of my computers that is online 24/7. It is a good solution, but my system was compromised by exploiting ruby / gitshell . Also it took way too much system resources to operate.

Of course it's my responsibility to patch software I'm using, but after considering how much time I would need to run gitlab on my own host ( incl. server upgrade, security configuration, may be kernel + docker installation, etc. ) I decided to go to a paid repo at GitHub.

webmaven4• 12 years ago

Had you considered GitLab's free hosting?

webmaven4• 12 years ago

Is that their hosted option, or self-hosted?

wlk• 12 years ago

For private/small projects free BitBucket is enough. For larger projects I have used self-hosted Gitlab which was running very well on relatively low spec server.

nirix• 12 years ago

I use BitBucket for small private projects. Never had any issues with it. For larger projects I'd go with a paid GitHub plan.

0x0• 12 years ago

Started on the free bitbucket and went to the paid bitbucket when we needed more than 5 users. With 200+ repositories, we've already exceeded what is available for purchase on github.

logicuce2• 12 years ago

Bitbucket's no limit on number of repos is what made us take the final call as well. You don't want to be restricted on that when you strive hard to have a more organized code base.

mindcrime• 12 years ago

We use paid GitHub.

eldelshell• 12 years ago

Paid GitHub.

It's great, not really expensive, almost every developer knows how it works.

Simply setting up your own Git repo would be more expensive than a few months of GitHub/BitBucket subscription.

michaelmior2• 12 years ago

I'm not arguing about GitHub being great, but it really only takes a few minutes to spin up an EC2 instance and add a few user accounts with a shared folder. That's really all that's required to set up a shared repo.

justincormack• 12 years ago

Plus backups., security updates etc. OK you can not backup got as someone probably has a copy but...

troels• 12 years ago

You can put the bare repo on a server and then use ssh. Dead simple and works great if you have a dev server where all developers have access to anyway.

drinchev3• 12 years ago

Yeah, pretty much that's what I also find the most appropriate.

GitHub seems to be the second-best option ( sometimes the first ), but when you have unlimited non-paid private repos your mind goes also unlimited : I serve my important configuration files, various scripts, small personal projects, even my bank statements on a git repo, hosted on my personal server. But if every repo costed me 2$ per month, I doubt I would do that.

talkingtab• 12 years ago

I use my own git repo. I have a very small digitalocean server as well as a mac. I rsync the repos for backup. I have used github a bit but in my admittedly limited experience I see no benefit and therefore no need for anything else. Really it just seems trivial.

modinfo• 12 years ago

I use my own git repos with web cgit, on my dedicated ovh server.

bruo• 12 years ago

i'm with you! i can't be happier with cgit!

drakmail• 12 years ago

Free GitLab account on gitlab.com

taspeotis• 12 years ago

Atlassian Stash [1]. Gets regular updates and it plays nicely with JIRA and Bamboo.

[1] https://www.atlassian.com/software/stash/whats-new

serve_yay• 12 years ago

It works but it's not great. It's rather slow and the interface leaves some things to be desired (for example, you can't close a pull request without letting Stash merge it for you).

gonewest2• 12 years ago

You can decline / reject / whatever they call it in stash and it won't be merged...

nsfmc• 12 years ago

if you already have a tiny vps running somewhere, take a look at gitolite. it's free, it supports multiple users, allows for complex access control, but has a tiny bit of a learning curve attached to it.

on the upside, you learn a bunch about ssh in the process!

rokche123• 12 years ago

+1 for Gitolite. It is not that hard, more like an afternoon spent figuring things out. Great access control. It has no interface and no pull requests but that is not what git is about after all.

_1009• 12 years ago

Free Bitbucket, works just fine.

Argorak• 12 years ago

Github private, both for my personal and my company account. Mainly because if the ease of giving others access, as most of my peers use it as well. I don't want to have multiple accounts at multiple services for that.

I use Stash at one client and like it, especially when integrated with JIRA. Not that I have much love for JIRA, but if you track all details, it's the tool to go for.

gbraad• 12 years ago

Bitbucket (free) and self-hosted without a fancy interface (linode, synced to digital ocean, dreamhost)

lini• 12 years ago

Self-hosted Gitlab. We have more than 20 projects in it but only a few of them can be called large.

yalue• 12 years ago

We also use self-hosted Gitlab. Its workflow is generally very sensible, the web interface is great, and it was easy to integrate with a homemade CI server (unfortunately their provided CI server wasn't nearly as easy to set up as Gitlab itself).

Outlaw11A• 12 years ago

Paid Github through the student license

privong• 12 years ago

I use both github (I recently finished a PhD and so had access to the education discount) and free bitbucket (a budding collaboration hosts their private code there). I am the sole user for most of my repos (mostly software for data analysis and LaTeX drafts for papers), so bitbucket's five user limit for free accounts has not affected my workflow in any way. I do use github for code I want to release to the public (e.g., code associated with publications, side-projects that I want to share), as it seems like there is more of an ecosystem there and the website seems more conducive to easily finding other peoples projects.

hackerboos• 12 years ago

Gitlab on Digital Ocean using their image.

nilved• 12 years ago

Host your own server. It's easy, cheap and offers more features.

robinhoodexe• 12 years ago

I use a free BitBucket plan. The unlimited private repos are perfect for me, since I have a lot of small projects that I'll likely never finish. Also, i have Pass[1] set up with Git, so everything is backed up, under version control and is pushed to my Raspberry Pi so I can access all my passwords on my iPhone as well.

Also, I use Git for large academic projects and papers in LaTeX, so public Github is not really ideal.

[1]http://www.zx2c4.com/projects/password-store/

ryanmacg• 12 years ago

I used to use github but I’ve moved towards gitlab in the past while as my need for private repos dropped in scale

shooster• 12 years ago

I'll try to summarize my choice depending on org size.

If it fits in BitBucket's free plan or you're solo, use that. It'll just work.

If it doesn't fit in BitBucket's free plan, pay for GitHub (sorry BitBucket).

If you need it behind your firewall and want to manage yourself, you can afford to (and should do) an eval of solutions like GitLab.

If you need it behind your firewall and your org is already large and complicated, then try GitHub enterprise.

noselasd• 12 years ago

Self hosted repos accessed with ssh on a vSphere CentOS VM

giancarlostoro• 12 years ago

As a student if you have a .edu email you can get unlimited repos on BitBucket as well. I use BitBucket for projects I don't want to publish, and if it ever becomes something I wouldn't mind sharing I go public on GitHub and BitBucket.

ef4• 12 years ago

A benefit of private GitHub repos is that you're still nicely integrated with your open source dependencies on GitHub. For example, if you file an issue in your private repo that mentions an issue in some other public repo, you'll see your own reference when viewing the public issue.

selamtux• 12 years ago

i use amazon s3 for git repositories

neom• 12 years ago

gitlab on digitalocean.

akie• 12 years ago

Self-hosting with gogs.io. Awesome interface, easy to install (it's just a binary), uses minimal system resources and loads very very quick.

izacus• 12 years ago

Yep, I'm using Gogs on my Synology NAS as well to self-host and mirror/backup my GitHub repositories.

shvar• 12 years ago

+1 for bitbucket

IgorPartola• 12 years ago

My private repos go on a NAS share over SSH. git supports this perfectly.

ishener• 12 years ago

There's really no disadvantage to using BitBucket...

logicuce2• 12 years ago

I first tried bitbucket for my personal projects and then moved my work repos to it as well.

Bitbucket charges per user and not per repo (the github model) which scales well while keeping cost in control.

istoselidas• 12 years ago

For public repos and company's private repos I am using github. For personal private projects I use bitbucket.

webmaven4• 12 years ago

Oops. Guess the ability to edit your OP times out sooner than I remembered.

Current summary stats for private repos:

* Paid GitHub: 9

* Free+Paid BitBucket: 14

* Hosted+Self-hosted GitLab: 8

ja27• 12 years ago

+1 for free BitBucket plan

pritambaral• 12 years ago

Github Education for college projects, Github open source for class projects (these benefit from sharing publicly), Bitbucket for private and freelance projects.

segmondy• 12 years ago

github for public stuff, bitbucket for private.

rhspeer• 12 years ago

Had to switch from BitBucket to GitHub because BitBucket has performance issues dev team in Nepal.

The 24 hour dev cycle is upon us and it's important to make sure these tools work on both sides of the planet.

Artemis2• 12 years ago

Experienced that to in France. Since we also use Bitbucket for code review, I just put a box with a good network connection as a secondary git server that synced code at each push.

je42• 12 years ago

bitbucket for free private repos.

jibsen• 12 years ago

Free BitBucket for private repos, free GitHub for open source projects.

I would have considered the micro plan if it weren't for the 5 repo limit -- I am (sadly) not rich enough to pay them just for being nice if I can get the number of private repos I need for free elsewhere.

gonewest2• 12 years ago

Same here, plus github enterprise at work and a private install of stash for a different project at work.

Shorel2• 12 years ago

I use Gogs.

Fast, very low resource usage, easy to install.

moepstar• 12 years ago

I've set up a small-ish Gogs server on a RPi and i beg to differ on the "easy to install" - this might be true if you can just get the packages and install it, but once you try to manually set it up you'll see that the docs are lacking, big time.

And even if you've got it all set up: how are you supposed to update your install? IIRC, i've read somewhere that you're supposed to wipe & reinstall the whole thing (take this with a grain of salt, haven't used my install that much as Gogs is still way buggier than, say, GitLab).

Shorel2• 12 years ago

I just updated from 4.2 to 5.2.

No wipe, just overwrite some files and that's it.

edoceo• 12 years ago

2x paid github, one for each company.

theGREENsuit• 12 years ago

free private bitbucket repos

kcthota• 12 years ago

Bitbucket

Veratyr• 12 years ago

Github costs money, Bitbucket gives me the same thing for free. Usually I use Bitbucket for private and if I open source something move it to Github.

canterburry• 12 years ago

I ended up getting an DigitalOcean $10/month box and set up GitLab (which is awesome). I figured for almost the same price of GitHub micro plan I could get unlimited repos by self hosting and could additionally use the box as a private maven repo host and maybe a build box (barely though).

marchenkoigor• 12 years ago

Phabricator has a nice set for privet repo

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