Friday, July 12, 2013

Git clients and free private hosting repositories

When working with Git for puppet management and some private projects, I used eGit plugin in Geppetto and Eclipse but usually got frustrated [rejected - non-fast-forward] error when push code. Searched  around and tried some configuration but it didn't work well. Sometimes it even got wrong status between committed/pushed... So finally I switched to git command.

Until one day I found out free powerful Git and Mercurial client SourceTree that has neat GUI and easy to use.

Thought it's free we'll need to register it. Let's give it a shot, you'll like it soon.

Another issue is I used Assembla to host code free for some private projects in Git. After few months stop working with it, then backed to make a new Git project, I couldn't find the creating free Git repository link anymore. Search around and found out it stopped free plan for new projects!

So just find another one, Bitbucket is free for 5 users with issue tracker, wiki features, "clean UI", easier to use, and cool function is the import function so I could transfer source code from Assembla to Bitbucket. Very happy for this change.

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