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by finspin 3199 days ago
Regarding private git repo, have you looked into Bitbucket? They offer unlimited free private repos. I've been using them for about half a year, very happy so far.
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Haha... research right?

That's funny. I'm curious what's the catch besides someone else hosting your data of course that's ridiculous/how do you explain using everything else...

Good point and thanks. Would trust their setup more than mine, speed up the learning process too but it wasn't bad setting it up.

I've been using Bitbucket's free private repositories for several years and it works great for me. I think the catch is just that you can only have five users on a team, so you need to convert to a paid account if you bring in more people. If it's just your own stuff, then obviously that's not a concern. I think it's just a loss leader to bring people in and try to convert some of them to a paid offering at some point.
Yeah at this time I'm the only developer for where I'd like to apply git to.

Thanks a lot, would speed up the process not worrying about the permissions/setting it up. Still have to read some guides on Git but yeah I appreciate the tip.

I also like that it's not on the same server as the production server just because that one has limited resources at this time. Granted again it's just me.

...or gitlab, very nice (and free) repo hosting, in-house or online.
+1 for Bitbucket