[ajug-members] Free Subversion Hosting suggestions?

[Gunnar Hillert]

Hi,

Here is an approach that works well for me: I have a couple of home 
projects (Ruby on Rails) that are deployed to a typical $8/month - 
Shared hosting provider. They provide SSH access and as it turned out, 
the provider has Subversion installed on the server.  Thus, I can use 
Subversion via SSH (svn+ssh://...) and it works well. This has the 
advantage for me that I can easily deploy my applications via Capistrano 
(It needs a repository that is accessible from the host and therefore, I 
could not use a local SVN repository on my PC at home).

Regards,

Gunnar



James Mitchell wrote:
> I agree.  After having svn issues with my site hosting provider, I 
> moved my svn repositories to my local box (as Rob suggests) and now I 
> can develop locally (even offline) and do everything I need to do.
>
> The biggest thing I noticed is that I now commit more often.  And 
> since I'm also using CruiseControl, all of my tests are run 
> automatically with every commit.  Add in the integration with the 
> Growl notifier and life gets suddenly easier as you work locally on 
> your projects.
>
> Since these are client applications, daily backups are critical, so I 
> use a nightly backup (OS/X Backup) to an external drive.
>
>
> -- 
> James Mitchell
>
>
>
> On Apr 11, 2007, at 9:49 AM, Rob Worsnop wrote:
>
>> Unless I was working in a team, I wouldn't bother using a hosting 
>> service.
>> If you have the repository on you own box you can use file://... URLs
>> instead of svn://... or https://... or whatever. That way you don't
>> have to have a subversion server running. (Nothing to administer!)
>> Your svn client (e.g., Tortoise) will just be accessing the repository
>> directly. And if you use FSFS instead of Berkeley DB, you can even
>> access it over a shared network drive.
>> BTW, with TortoiseSVN, creating a repository is ludicrously easy: You
>> just right-click in the directory where you want to put the repository
>> and then do TortoiseSVN/Create repository here.
>>
>> On 4/10/07, Mark McCall <markwmccall at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I am working on some personal development projects that I would like to
>>> version in Subversion, but I don't want to deal with administering 
>>> my own
>>> box.  Has anyone had any experiences they can share with any of the 
>>> free
>>> Subversion hosting services?  I am not planning for these projects 
>>> to be
>>> open sourced, so the services that state "free open source hosting" 
>>> do not
>>> seem applicable.
>>>
>>> I found a list here:
>>> http://subversion.tigris.org/links.html but I am hoping
>>> somebody can recommend something from personal experience.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>> Mark McCall
>>>
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