Github: Free micro plan for a month

Re:Github: Free micro plan for a month by flexd on Wednesday December 01, 2010 @03:05PM (#1959329)

Considering i could keep my private repo from the beta until i accidentally deleted it (empty repo) this is a good deal for us that do not use github enough to warrant paying monthly but does appreciate it. I just made my self 5 private empty repoes named private1-5. I can just rename them and put them to use when i need them and most likely they will persist (or just become public?) when the free month runs out. Not that i wouldn't want to pay GitHub for their awesome service but when you're a unemployed student with bills to pay i'd rather have food on my table one more day than private repos.

Should probably add that i would pay for a plan if i needed private repos, but this is nice since i get stuff i don't need and don't have to pay for. Freebies are awesome :-)

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Re:Github: Free micro plan for a month by xiongchiamiov on Wednesday December 01, 2010 @03:37PM (#1959481)

Check out gitosis. It's a little bit of a pain to get set up correctly, but once you've done that, adding new repositories is a breeze.

School projects tend to be proliferous and need to be private, which doesn't mesh well with GitHub. I'm mostly just paying them for a micro plan because I think the service is cool.

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Re:Github: Free micro plan for a month by nuclear_eclipse on Wednesday December 01, 2010 @03:55PM (#1959569)

gitolite is a much-improved fork of gitosis, "backed" by Fedora for use in their repos, and IMO is much easier and nicer to setup to configure.

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Re:Github: Free micro plan for a month by xiongchiamiov on Wednesday December 01, 2010 @04:26PM (#1959693)

Ah, thanks. We just restructured our servers in my house, so I need to move gitosis over to a different machine anyway. Might as well try out gitolite instead.

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Re:Github: Free micro plan for a month by moogatronic on Wednesday December 01, 2010 @06:27PM (#1960200)

Gitolite has very easy to follow instructions to get it up and running. (Hosted at Github!) Also interesting is that VPS account + Gitolite is cheaper (perhaps more practical for smallish businesses - if you're only interested in hosting git repos) than a Github account.

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Re:Github: Free micro plan for a month by flexd on Monday December 13, 2010 @06:44AM (#2000128)

Hmm that is quite smart yeah. The smallest Linode VPS accounts are actually quite cheap yeah.. I see they have removed their smallest instance though. But i guess any other good VPS host will work. Hosting git repoes does not exactly take a lot of oompfh.

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Re:Github: Free micro plan for a month by flexd on Wednesday December 01, 2010 @04:04PM (#1959602)

Ah cool, combining that with those free one year EC2 instances would get you free and secure git hosting for a year. Don't you just love free offers?

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Re:Github: Free micro plan for a month by Dobbs on Wednesday December 01, 2010 @03:52PM (#1959554)

In the comments on the blog they noted that they will lock the repositories when the trial expires.

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Re:Github: Free micro plan for a month by flexd on Wednesday December 01, 2010 @04:13PM (#1959643)

Aha, so much for my plan then eh? Was just counting on what i experienced having a account from whenever the beta started. :-) Clever move by them.

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