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Ask Slashdot: Self-Hosting Git Repositories?

Posted by timothy on from the that-sounds-recursive dept.

mpol writes "We're all aware of PRISM and the NSA deals with software houses. Just today it was in the news that even Microsoft gives zero-day exploits to the NSA, who use them to prepare themselves, but also use the exploits to break into other systems. At my company we use Git with some private repositories. It's easy to draw the conclusion that git-hosting in the cloud, like Github or Bitbucket, will lead to sharing the sourcecode with the NSA. Self-hosting our Git repositories seems like a good and safe idea then. The question then becomes which software to use. It should be Open Source and under a Free License, that's for sure. Software like GitLab and GNU Savane seem good candidates. What other options are there, and how do they stack up against each other? What experience do people have with them?"

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  1. WTF terrible moderation by Giant+Electronic+Bra · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Man, /. moderation is crap. This is a troll? Really? I think it is time for some serious meta-moderation... Jeeze!

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    "Malo periculosam, libertatem quam quietam servitutem." -- Jefferson
  2. Chinese Hosting by sanman2 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Just get China to host you - Ed Snowden did.

    Seriously, though - that guy has been working for China all along. He makes his revelations on the eve of the US-China summit, where China was facing angry US allegations about cyber-hacking attacks, and suddenly the tables are totally turned on the US. How magically convenient for the Chinese. Ohhh, but China would never stoop to a trick like that, you say?? In which case, I have a hosting service in the Everglades I'd like to interest you in...