convore.json/groups/hacker-news/free-private-and-public-version-control-svn-git/messages.json

[{"user_id": 3444, "stars": [], "topic_id": 36313, "date_created": 1306072033.6128571, "message": "What's your favorite? I'm looking for something free, private (and public too, if I want), and preferably SVN since I'm most familiar with it. However, I'm not opposed to GIT, and would would be open to learning it if y'all suggest.", "group_id": 95, "id": 1141872}, {"user_id": 16719, "stars": [], "topic_id": 36313, "date_created": 1306072878.293931, "message": "Assembla was offering free SVN, yes private repos too. (i wonder if they are still offering free svn..?)", "group_id": 95, "id": 1141942}, {"user_id": 3444, "stars": [], "topic_id": 36313, "date_created": 1306073768.826138, "message": "@bhu1st They are actually. I looked into them (signed up even), but I want to see what else is out there before I decide to stick with Assembla.", "group_id": 95, "id": 1142015}, {"user_id": 8668, "stars": [], "topic_id": 36313, "date_created": 1306076329.842757, "message": "For free hosting on those, there's obviously bitbucket / github / launchpad (for hg / git / bzr respectively)", "group_id": 95, "id": 1142295}, {"user_id": 8668, "stars": [], "topic_id": 36313, "date_created": 1306076234.0138259, "message": "I would really advise looking into DVCS. There are many reasons why it's worth looking into, but one in particular for you: Almost zero cost of changing providers later on (whereas SVN is a huge pain in the hole)", "group_id": 95, "id": 1142291}, {"user_id": 8668, "stars": [], "topic_id": 36313, "date_created": 1306076299.040889, "message": "Personally I favour Mercurial over git, and can recommend hginit.com for learning it. Git is good too though, so is Bazaar, and I enjoyed using Darcs although it isn't really as mature as \"the big 3\". Whichever you go for, I'm sure you will find plenty to love, as they all solve some of SVN's biggest headaches.", "group_id": 95, "id": 1142294}, {"user_id": 960, "stars": [], "topic_id": 36313, "date_created": 1306081253.845073, "message": "@CrowderSoup Yes, definitely.", "group_id": 95, "id": 1142638}, {"user_id": 960, "stars": [{"date_created": 1307333237.349293, "user_id": 8391}], "topic_id": 36313, "date_created": 1306080958.0593309, "message": "@CrowderSoup I'd highly recommend looking at GItHub.  They offer relatively cheap plans, but for that you get an amazing tool.  Version control is one of *the* biggest deals for a software company.  Skimping on it can mean all manner of trouble down the road.", "group_id": 95, "id": 1142622}, {"user_id": 3444, "stars": [], "topic_id": 36313, "date_created": 1306081059.2561059, "message": "@tswicegood Agreed, that's why I want to figure out the best solution right out of the gate...but without any spare cashflow at this moment in time, actually paying for something is a little hard. But I guess the old saying \"You get what you pay for\" applies here.", "group_id": 95, "id": 1142625}, {"user_id": 960, "stars": [], "topic_id": 36313, "date_created": 1306081287.7137811, "message": "Something to ask yourself: why do you need an external host?", "group_id": 95, "id": 1142641}, {"user_id": 960, "stars": [], "topic_id": 36313, "date_created": 1306081327.8739691, "message": "In the DVCS world, you could simply push a copy of your code to a remote repo on your shared host (outside of a document root, obviously) and allow the other devs to do the same.", "group_id": 95, "id": 1142642}, {"user_id": 3444, "stars": [], "topic_id": 36313, "date_created": 1306081417.0823269, "message": "@tswicegood Would I need to install DVCS (I'm guess this is \"Mercurial\") on the shared host?", "group_id": 95, "id": 1142648}, {"user_id": 22183, "stars": [], "topic_id": 36313, "date_created": 1306084610.7340679, "message": "https://bitbucket.org/ is a good choice too, although it is based on Mercurial.  Free private repo.", "group_id": 95, "id": 1142866}, {"user_id": 3444, "stars": [], "topic_id": 36313, "date_created": 1306086066.606349, "message": "Well, I DO think I'm going to stick with SVN (hosted by Assembla, free/private) for now. I'm going to play with github and in the future I may switch over.", "group_id": 95, "id": 1142958}, {"user_id": 960, "stars": [], "topic_id": 36313, "date_created": 1306085874.513799, "message": "@CrowderSoup Can't speak to Mercurial, but not necessarily with Git.", "group_id": 95, "id": 1142944}, {"user_id": 19238, "stars": [], "topic_id": 36313, "date_created": 1306101598.7707839, "message": "beanstalkapp.com gives 1 free repo", "group_id": 95, "id": 1144611}, {"user_id": 842, "stars": [], "topic_id": 36313, "date_created": 1306112837.9839931, "message": "Dropbox :p", "group_id": 95, "id": 1146595}, {"user_id": 842, "stars": [], "topic_id": 36313, "date_created": 1306112926.418484, "message": "I'm too lazy to use a vcs and I work alone, so dropbox + packrat feature is good enough for me", "group_id": 95, "id": 1146624}, {"user_id": 1881, "stars": [], "topic_id": 36313, "date_created": 1306128139.9808121, "message": "If you are a student, you can apply for a free micro plan on GitHub will", "group_id": 95, "id": 1148636}, {"user_id": 1881, "stars": [], "topic_id": 36313, "date_created": 1306128326.818177, "message": "http://projectlocker.com **", "group_id": 95, "id": 1148656}, {"user_id": 1881, "stars": [], "topic_id": 36313, "date_created": 1306128271.5717039, "message": "And I think ProjectLocker offers free SVN/git hosting. http://projectlocker.org", "group_id": 95, "id": 1148652}, {"user_id": 29700, "stars": [{"date_created": 1306277393.3599031, "user_id": 22794}], "topic_id": 36313, "date_created": 1306136073.9365759, "message": "I've been using git+dropbox for several of my hobby projects. It works awesome. You could just share it by sharing that folder - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1960799/using-gitdropbox-together-effectively", "group_id": 95, "id": 1149796}, {"user_id": 8668, "stars": [{"date_created": 1306160130.668905, "user_id": 960}], "topic_id": 36313, "date_created": 1306138055.562232, "message": "Reiterating so this doesn't get lost: If you pick a DVCS, you don't need a host. It's decentralised, so if you decide later you need one, you can get one later. To get started you need nothing more than a single client.", "group_id": 95, "id": 1150136}, {"user_id": 33951, "stars": [], "topic_id": 36313, "date_created": 1306150480.114918, "message": "mercurial ofc bitbucket.org", "group_id": 95, "id": 1151190}, {"user_id": 3444, "stars": [], "topic_id": 36313, "date_created": 1306207204.782599, "message": "@may_null You know, I'm going with that :) Free, private, Mercurial works great (TortoiseHG is awesome!), what more can I ask for?", "group_id": 95, "id": 1161012}, {"user_id": 31140, "stars": [], "topic_id": 36313, "date_created": 1306230329.4075511, "message": "I was using SVN and wondered why I would ever bother using GIT, but then one day I tried it. Advantages, it's way faster than SVN and far quicker to get started. I use github.com and beanstalkapp.com for my hosting, neither is free but both offer a great service.", "group_id": 95, "id": 1164475}, {"user_id": 28472, "stars": [], "topic_id": 36313, "date_created": 1307203749.4583199, "message": "For all the git fanboys, is there a windows gui client of sorts, similar in polish to tortoisesvn?", "group_id": 95, "id": 1286790}, {"user_id": 3444, "stars": [], "topic_id": 36313, "date_created": 1307228652.7535901, "message": "@Aranjedeath Yes indeed actually, http://code.google.com/p/tortoisegit/", "group_id": 95, "id": 1289973}, {"user_id": 2376, "stars": [], "topic_id": 36313, "date_created": 1307254437.7408121, "message": "http://www.riouxsvn.com/   Their homepage says : \"RiouxSVN is a totally Free & Private Subversion hosting website. At Rioux, every single feature is Free, and always will be.\"", "group_id": 95, "id": 1291796}, {"user_id": 2376, "stars": [], "topic_id": 36313, "date_created": 1307254536.160183, "message": "plus, their interface is so simple. I love it. I'm a big fan of Unfuddle too. http://www.unfuddle.com", "group_id": 95, "id": 1291802}, {"user_id": 30354, "stars": [], "topic_id": 36313, "date_created": 1307257159.7419209, "message": "That site looks pretty similar http://beanstalkapp.com/", "group_id": 95, "id": 1292054}, {"user_id": 2343, "stars": [], "topic_id": 36313, "date_created": 1307499773.6252241, "message": "@Lloyd It's probably a theme from Theme Forest http://themeforest.net/", "group_id": 95, "id": 1332288}, {"user_id": 27202, "stars": [], "topic_id": 36313, "date_created": 1307547063.641187, "message": "I am in love with Unfuddle, you can find almost everything you need there. You can have one project hosting for free, then it is not much expensive", "group_id": 95, "id": 1338375}, {"user_id": 14707, "stars": [], "topic_id": 36313, "date_created": 1307632588.5786231, "message": "@CrowderSoup I tried assembla and they flipped free private packages to public because it was too expensive! When they noticed they lost a lot of customers they tried the free private strategy again. This is an unacceptable business behavior! I tried many other free small repos and decided to go with Unfuddle.com - I've been with them for over 4 years and they rock!", "group_id": 95, "id": 1351017}]