Google Code + SVN or GitHub + Git [closed]

Answer 1

I haven't had particularly positive experiences with TortoiseGit myself. I really like the git model, but everything about it feels weird to me when I'm trying to use it on Windows. I often end up just using the cygwin version, but even that is far from perfect.

Honestly, for small projects that you want to opensource, I'd probably just host on google code and deal with SVN for the moment. It might be different if you were already a git expert, but I'm not sure that the learning curve is worth it for a small, windows-based project (esp. considering the # of windows developers who are likely to be turned off by it).

Answer 2

There are 2 main advantages to GitHub:

1. It uses git (duh!)
2. It's a very "social" environment.

GitHub makes it very easy to make contributions to other people's code, and easy for them to integrate it back in. There are also lots and lots of cool post-commit hooks that they have built-in; for instance, when I commit to one of my repositories, an email is sent to my Google Groups announce list and a bot pops into the irc channel, gives a summary of the changes, and pops back out again. I know of at least one CI service that triggers on GitHub commits (or rather, pushes).

If you're planning on this being a fairly small, solo project, then you probably won't find most of GitHub's features to be that useful.

Answer 3

What about bitbucket (for git and mercurial) or Team Foundation Service (for git and TFS (microsoft CVS))? They both provide 5 free private repositories and git support. Also, Bitbucker offers a git client for mac and windows and TFS offers a LOT of project managment tools.

I think bitbucket and tfs aren't as social as github, but if you need private repositories, maybe you want to loose that "socialness"

Hope this bring to the table some ligth.

Answer 4

Google Code is supporting Mercurial now. Mercurial should give you most of the benefits of Git, but you get the maturity of Google Code. You also have the option to go with subversion there as well should you want to.

Answer 5

Why not use both? You can use google code to host the project and use github as your repository. Check out robotium.org as an example.