Forget Github Limits: Free Private Git Repositories with Dropbox
by Dan Adams Monday, January 16th, 2012Need private git repositories for your personal projects but don’t want to pony up the lunch money for a github personal account? In his post, Dan Adams details how to combine git and Dropbox for cheap, backed-up personal git repositories.
Read the full post at mrdanadams.com.
[Read more on Dan's blog at http://mrdanadams.com]
Trying this today. Great idea. For one or two repos it’s not really worth investing in a paid personal GitHub account. What’s the best way to look at the git log in this circumstance?
Yeah, I’ve been using this for a few months without a problem. I always view the git log in my cloned repo so it’s the same as any other.
Could this be used as a way to develop on the iPad with git support? There are currently no iPad IDEs with Git support but some can use Dropbox.
Nice idea. I was getting annoyed with the crazy limits on the number of private repos in Github. The basic plan only gives you 5 repos! So I was looking around at alternatives and didn’t really consider this, but it is a great solution.
Bitbucket also offers unlimited free private Repos. Basically a github clone so it’s nice with a small team or just storing your source.
Am i missing something. Will this in anyway backup my source files on Dropbox? or it is just a repo on Dropbox?
Mulund: this stores your repo (without a working copy) in dropbox. So rather than having it on a remote server, your remote is local but backed up in dropbox.
Thanks Dan, that was quick. I was searching for this exact setup for my workflow ….
Great!, that’s what I was looking for. Thank you.
Thanks a lot for this post. I didn’t know this was possible before. Something went a bit wrong on this page with the inclusion of the code snippets, and the code is repeated for each step.
I think there are also some unneeded steps, so I simplified the flow, added a few comments and voila: https://gist.github.com/4300389