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by timmorgan 6212 days ago
OK, I feel dumb. I hadn't heard of gitosis and just assumed (bad idea) that halogen64 was talking about gitorious. But really, gitosis doesn't seem like any real comparison to GitHub or Gitorious as far as features, am I right? Hosting Git repos is already pretty easy with SSH in my experience, but I'm sure I'm missing something or just making more bad assumptions. It's the online visualization and collaboration that GitHub brings that might be worth the cost.
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pilif 6212 days ago
You are right - it's no real comparison.

But still, using gitosis to host the repositories has some advantages over plain ssh:

    * you only need to create one git user
    * people don't need shell access to the machine
    * you have fine-grained control over who has push access and who doesn't.
As it's really easy to set up, it's always worth to go the gitosis route if you just need SSH repository access.

But yeah, the visualization and collaboration you don't get. For that you need to decide between Gitorious (doesn't look as nice, real pain to install, but open source and no associated cost aside of your own resources) and GitHub (really good-looking, (probably) easy to install, proprietary and quite expensive).

Judging from Gitorious' current state, I'd say GitHub is, for a non-ruby/rails programmer, less expensive to install and use than Gitorious, but it's still too expensive for what it provides, especially when you compare it to the hosted plans which are cheaper while not leaving you with backup and machine maintenance.

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