version control & code hosting - im lost

Question

i'm working on a small project that might have an additional coder at some point - i've become to used to svn (which i started using very recently, through sourceforge) and want to use it for this project, without having to publish the code on the internet -- which would happen if i were to add it a sourceforge project.

I have some hosting space (dreamhost) with shell access, and ideally i'd like a web-fronted version control s/w that i can install on my dreamhost account, and tinker away at my project wherever i happen to be.

there appear to be a number of possibilities (reviewboard.org, trac etc) that seem like they might work - but is there a simple barebones system somewhere that i can just quickly install without too much hacking?

thanks!

Answer 1

Running SVN server is easy - you just run svnserve. SVN can also access repository through SSH, in that case no SVN server is needed.

If you want web frontend too, I recommend Trac - we are using it in the company I work for, and many open-source projects are using it too (even if they do not use SVN). Trac installation is pretty easy (via easy_install) and contains stand-alone webserver (but can also be served via FastCGI, CGI...). See documentation. If you use SQLite as a database, you don't even need to setup MySQL or PostgreSQL.

DreamHost looks good, Python seems to be officialy supported (Trac is implemented in Python), so there should be no big problems (or no problems at all).

Answer 2

Yeah, there are a few. There's also plenty of svn hosting services, some even free. Check out Bitnami Trac if you're looking to set up your own. It's just a stack that has svn/trac/ etc. all installed and ready to go.

Otherwise if you'd go with hosted services, some are free: "google: 10 Free SVN & Project Hosting Services"

Answer 3

I've used ProjectLocker.com for free Subversion hosting (for a student project). It also hosts Trac as well. I was pretty happy with the results, so just throwing it out there as a possibility.

Answer 4

Assembla has always treated me well. It has SVN, Trac, plus a heap of other stuff. It's not free for private hosting, but it's darned cheap. You could always just make a public project to test out the tools first to see if you like it.

Answer 5

Dreamhost has native support for creating svn/trac instances right within their panel.

It's under Goodies -> Subversion. Lets you choose the subdomain you want it installed on, set users and passwords and whether its hidden or publicly visible by default. There's a checkbox for installing Trac, though you'll have to go back in and lock that down if you don't want your project publicly viewable, which should only take a few minutes to do on Google.

I use this setup for all of my projects and its quite nice.