[grandalf]

This is a very desirable use case. For those who don't get it, I'd say the following:

- it's nice to use git for all the small side projects one creates, but putting all of them on github is crazy expensive if you like keeping your musings private (though not necessarily b/c you're committed to a closed source ideology :)

- the cost factor creates an incentive to misuse git (not using submodules where appropriate) just to save money.

- There are a lot of awesome Git UI programs that run locally on my laptop, gitk is one.

- FWIW his fills the niche between github and gist.

[lucian1900]

Your first two reasons, and liking hg, is why I prefer bitbucket.