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Re:StackOverFlow: Why is Github more popular than Gitorious? by sant0sk1 on Tuesday July 06, 2010 @10:44AM (#1491092)
I've tried this route and the problem is that my company wants some open-source stuff and some closed source stuff. So a private Gitorious setup isn't great because we can't put our open-source stuff there.

If self-hosted Gitorious allowed for private & public projects then I could let it face the internet and have the perfect solution. I've seen a few implementations of private projects with merge requests, but sadly the Gitorious team has largely ignored them.

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Re:StackOverFlow: Why is Github more popular than Gitorious? by darklajid on Tuesday July 06, 2010 @10:53AM (#1491131)
Don't want to be the gitorious fanboy here. I'm using both and I'm not involved with either project (although I kind of run an internal gitorious instance here at work).

I have to agree with you: Both on one server is not possible. The only way to make this work would be cumbersome:

Install a public and a private instance of gitorious. For private projects: Works just as before. For public projects: Push to somewhere and make the post-receive hook propagate the change to public/private.

Ugly? Hell, yes. It's nothing but a workaround.

On the other hand: You can mix GitHub and Gitorious just fine. Your client (if you use one, or the git cli) doesn't care about the hosts, so having http://myPrivateGitorious repositories next to http://github.com repositories would work fine and you gain the best of both worlds. It's the same system. You can easily push/pull/merge from one to the other, it's not like the decision to use one or the other has to be an XOR.

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Re:StackOverFlow: Why is Github more popular than Gitorious? by icefox on Tuesday July 06, 2010 @01:13PM (#1491599)
After getting fed up with Gitorious I made GitHaven (http://www.githaven.com/) which allows you to have public and private repositories and comes with a much simpler installer to boot.
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