Questions tagged [project-hosting]
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Checkout, Fetch and Pull in BitBucket SourceTree
I am using BitBucket for web based hosting of our projects. Along with that I am using their SourceTree for committing and such purpose. I am a bit confused with the Checkout, Fetch and Pull option available in the SourceTree interface and their…

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Hosting an open source project at several sites
Say I had an open-source project which I wanted to try and generate some exposure for. Would it be considered unethical to set up a project entry for it on several sites such at github, sourceforge and google code, for example?
This would be purely…

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Using github to host public git repositories whilst ensuring that sensitive data files remain untracked
My app is hosted on Heroku and I have a public github repo too.
My app has a config file containing my amazon S3 credentials. It's important to ensure that the file gets pushed to heroku but not github.
So I was thinking that I could push my master…

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I've made something that might be useful to the community. Now what?
If the specifics are important, I made a cruisecontrol.net publisher plugin that notifies a series of phone numbers via voice, announcing the current state of the build. It uses Twilio to do so.
I'd like to avoid getting hung up on the specifics of…

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How to host a JSP website on a webserver?
I have a website developed mostly in HTML and JSP, and accessing a MySQL database. Having never put such a website online before, I wanted to know what are the steps needed to get it up and running online. I know there needs to be a web server. How…

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Is there a free web site hosting like google sites
Is there a free website hosting, sort of like google sites, but where I can upload my own html files and css?

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Should I use a software hosting solution for my personal projects?
Right now, I keep all of my projects on my laptop. I'm thinking that I shouldn't do this, but instead use a version control system and check them in/out from an external hosting repository (Google Code, SourceForge, etc). I see several benefits here…

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Free project hosting site easily integrated with Hudson/Maven etc
I want to host my java project on a free project hosting site.
I want to use SVN (if possible integrated in NetBeans).
I want the site to be easy to use and offer an option like Hudson system to control my nightly build/test execution.
Is there such…

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Mercurial: Share a repo without putting it on a server?
I am working in a student group with several other people. We would like to use Mercurial as our version control system, but some of our files can't be put online in a public hosting service like Google Projects or Codeplex. Is there some way that…

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How should I create an manage a github repository for a shared project?
I want to create a new github repo for an open source project. I don't want to create the repo under my personally account as it's url will then become github.com/myusername/projectname.
I want a nice url that we can link to from the website (that…

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Public repository for a Drupal installation: What security risks?
I'm putting a Drupal project on an open source hosting site. What files do I have to not put up there so I don't compromise my site's security?
Various settings.php comes to mind. And obviously the database itself won't be in a repository. Anything…

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create own svn repository hosting
Since a week I use ToirtoiseSVN and AnkhSVN and GoogleCode and sourceforge.net as my project hosting. For me it's frustrating to fill all this forms before create next project. So I start thinking about my own repository hosting.
Can I use simple…

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Can't Decide On a Suitable Open Source Project Host
I need a little bit of help deciding which project host (if any) to move our currently existing project to.
We currently have an SVN (but willing to migrate if necessary) closed-source project existing on Assembla. We're wondering about moving…

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How do you evaluate an open source project host?
I am going to create my first open source project and I am trying to decide where to host it google code or codeplex. It seems to me codeplex has a better set of community features and google code has real svn and a version diff tool. What has…

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Practice / Example codes in the repository
Suppose that I host a project in some open source project hosting services like Google Code, Git hub or Sourceforge, is it a good practice to place the examples / practice code in the repository which I used to learn the technology? For eg., while…

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