Recommendation for code hosting of personal projects.

Question

I tired my hands on bazaar(launchpad), for the reason that i can host my project at launchpad, and bazaar (my local machine) would be tightly integrated with launchpad. I have posted my question at launchpad forum, and have not got any answer. Anyways...

So i was thinking about shifting it from there to some other site. I dont know why, but couple of friends said sourceforge has not remain that good, but i still see too many project linking to sourceforge.

PS recommendation. Is there a place where you guys upload your personal projects, and also SVN I think is the most popular, but with git/bazaar, I dont know if it just a hype or distributed version controlling is really the way to go.

Answer 1

Well, there's 2 problems here. 1) What to use for SCM, and 2) Where to host your project. I'd settle on a SCM system first, then choose a host that you like which supports your provided system. As for personal preference, I like SVN, and have been hosting projects at google code lately. Google code is kind of new, and not super feature-rich, but isn't too bad as far as hosts go.

Answer 2

I have many personal projects at Google Code. It's easy to use, and lets other people find and use my code.

For minor personal projects (mostly projects I show off on my web site), I actually use Dropbox. It's got what I need for my own needs:

1. I can work on my code on several machines (it syncs files across machines.)
2. I can access my files through the web (it has a web interface.)
3. If I need to go back to an old version of a file, or restore a deleted file, I can do that through the web interface (it stores a revision every time the file is modified, and it's easy to see a list of versions and download them or choose to replace the current version.)

It's also got support for making part of the structure public, so that others can download the latest version of the code. You can even share the folder so that others with Dropbox can modify the files.

Check it out!

Answer 3

I'm very happy with Assembla for my personal stuff. They offer all kinds of version control and project management tools (SVN, Git, Trac, etc). It's free for public projects (though there is a storage limit for these) and they offer rather affordable private plans (which I like a lot for managing my personal stuff with tickets, wiki etc).

Answer 4

I can't believe nobody as mentioned Github yet! Github offers free git hosting for open source projects, and paid hosting otherwise.

Beanstalk offers free SVN hosting, but with a Diskspace limit of 100MB and only 3 users. You can pay to have it upgraded.

Both of these are good choices (Depending on whether or not you like Git/SVN of course), and are obviously globally accessible via the internet.

Answer 5

Mercurial (and Git I believe) has a built-in web interface that easily links to your repository and allows you to host the code yourself. It provides a customizable web interface for code browsing, and allows other to clone a repo from your site instead of from SFEE. Additionally, you can set up password protection to allow a certain set of users to check into each repository.

Check out this link to see how to host repositories using Apache, and this link for Mercurial info in general.

Answer 6

hey vivek

http://bzr.bz does private bzr + trac hosting - its not free but its cheap - perfect for personal projects etc.. that are not open source

cheers

justin