April 29, 2009

Best GIT Hosting

Some people asked me what was my favourite GIT hosting ( since GIT is my main version control system ) and it was the simplest question in the hole world and now I'm here to share it with you :)
I use the free package but there are some pretty nice paid packages.

GitHub is the best one I've found until now. I've registered a month ago and I've found out that it's interface is very easy and very useful because it has some features that worth a look and it's usage is simple and clean with now huge command to enter in the shell.

Besides all the regular features that almost all the hosting companies have it has a "watch" feature that let's you "follow" ( using tweetlanguage ) projects or individual persons and have some sort of news feed that keeps you updated about it/him/her in your home directory.
It also let's you directly fork a project from withing the website to your account, which I think it's a fantastic feature.
It also has a message system and some other cool features that I'll let you check them yourself.

The hosting and pricing is excellent. If you don't want to pay ( like me ) go for the free plan and have unlimited repositories for your projects.

The other reason that made me use GitHub is the fact that many big and open-source projects are hosted in this website like e-Text Editor ( which became open-source recently ) and Rails it self.

Fantastic no? Give it a try!