Private VCS hosts for school projects?

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Private VCS hosts for school projects?

I want to use version control for a partner project for school, but these days it seems like there are no private, free VCS hosts that I could use. I would prefer to use git if possible, but I wouldn't mind SVN. Alternatively, if there aren't any, shouldn't there be some way for me to use git without a central repository? I don't know enough about git, but I assume that is the point of a DVCS, no? I've considered scp'ing a clone of the repository to my school unix account and then giving my partner access to that, but it seems like it would be a bit of a pain. What are your thoughts/suggestions?

Edit: I do know of one site called xp-dev, but I'm not sure how much I trust it. But I could use that and use git-svn on my side, since my partner has actually only ever used svn. But still wondering if there are any alternatives.

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git is the simplest solution. If you can scp to your school account, you can push to a bare repo there, and have your friend push and pull from there. Depending on your needs, it might be sufficient for you and your partner to run git-daemon and pull from each-other; this is often how I work in the absence of a central host.

Julian Squires 2009-04-24 20:18:21

Thanks, I had done the bare repo thing for myself more or less and I think I'll probably end up doing that in this case as well; the only problem is I first need to teach my partner how to use git, and I don't know it very well myself. But it's probably a good time to learn. The only problem with running git-daemon is that a) both of us run Windows, although I use mingw/msys extensively and we are both pretty good with *nix overall, and b) we'd have to send each other ip addresses every time they cahnge? But I suppose that's not too much of a hassle.

Ibrahim 2009-04-26 20:01:59

I'm presuming you're in a college of some kind - don't hey offer some computing resources that you could utilize to host a git repository? Indeed, as you say, one of the benefits of DCVS is to not need a hosted repository. Why not just host it on your own desktop machine, if you don't have access to other resources?

Ben Collins 2009-04-24 20:19:07

They do, but I'm not sure if they have git installed. I've been meaning to get an account with the group that provides some hosting resources for a while, but I keep forgetting. Thanks for reminding me!

Ibrahim 2009-04-26 20:06:36

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I've had good luck with Unfuddle

They seem to provide both git and svn access, and looks like this is what you were asking for.

Brian 2009-04-24 20:31:54

Oh cool! I had looked at unfuddle before but for some reason didn't like it, but it seems like it will work fine. I think previously their storage limit might have been really small on the free plan? And for some reason I thought it didn't let you have multiple users on one project, but two is all I need so it should be fine. Thanks again!

Ibrahim 2009-04-26 20:04:53

Either:

Your University/College/School offers such service
Settle for a google code project (it forces it to be open to public, but in most scenarios this should be ok, I mean who cares?)

I asked a similar question before, and in the end went with google code. Our school did offer a hosting service but they were slow and didn't give it to us in time, so ...

hasen j 2009-04-26 09:00:12

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DMan 2010-08-23 16:47:49

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