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I was wondering if it would be possible to install a git service for use by a small team. Would it be possible to install on a private network/locally or would it be more practical to install over a web network (e.g. a website domain).

Thanks and please point my in the right direction, ~Daniel

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It's really simple to setup a git repo. Just do git init --bare on your server in a place that is accessible via ssh then your repo is ssh://your_host/path_to_repo.

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  • @Zsub, yes, though it's much more difficult to create a public repository.
    – dan_waterworth
    Commented Mar 9, 2011 at 8:01
  • will it be password protected?
    – user
    Commented Mar 28, 2011 at 2:24
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    @Saad, it uses the same settings as ssh, so by default it is password protected, but if you put your public key onto the remote machine, it can authorise you without a password. (see, blogs.translucentcode.org/mick/archives/000230.html )
    – dan_waterworth
    Commented Mar 28, 2011 at 6:24
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In addition to dan_waterworths answer, I would like to suggest buying a subscription at, for example, GitHub. They probably have all the services you need, plus you don't need to worry about maintenance, backups, etc. and for a company with several developers, the cost of between $25 and $100 per month is quite reasonable.

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    note that it may be company policy that source must stay "in house".
    – user1249
    Commented Mar 9, 2011 at 10:23
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    Might be, but is not specified :) I got the impression it had to be easy, so I suggested an external website.
    – Zsub
    Commented Mar 9, 2011 at 10:26
  • For in house you can get the GitHub Firewall Install. Which is your own private installation of GitHub in your own network.
    – Htbaa
    Commented Mar 9, 2011 at 10:58
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    If you need to go past github's $12/month plan, do yourself a favor and just purchase a low end VPS. You will end up getting more disk space for private repositories and won't have any limitation of number of private repositories repositories or users It will also cost you less in most cases (you can easily find reliable low end VPS for under 22 a month).
    – ryanzec
    Commented Apr 21, 2011 at 14:04
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I found the "gitosis" package (installs easily on Ubuntu) to be very nice for a ssh-protected git repository if you need finer grained access control than "all with an ssh account can do everything".

Has worked well for us.

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For a small team, a simple network share can be enough.

But if you need authentication and fine-grained ACL on your repos, I would recommend gitolite.

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  • Will the network share work fine even with concurrent updates, or do you need to have it on a local disk?
    – user1249
    Commented Mar 9, 2011 at 8:48
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    @Thorbjørn: yes, the local protocol (progit.org/book/ch4-1.html) supports concurrent updates.
    – VonC
    Commented Mar 9, 2011 at 9:59

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