Hi Folks,

We're moving our SVN repositories to the cloud (finally), I wonder any of you would care to recommend any one.

Currently, looking at Asembla and ProjectLocker...

What's you opinion?

Regards,
Mario

Mario Enríquez wrote:

> We're moving our SVN repositories to the cloud

Can I give a "non-answer"? 8-)

We have been moving our SVN repositories to BitBucket and converting to Git. With TortoiseGit, it is just as easy as it was with TortoiseSVN. And Git is where all the cool kids are hanging out nowadays.

Transferring is generally easy, but we had two repos that I had to sign up and pay on Github to import into Git from our internet accessible SVN server. I imported to Github, then transferred it to BitBucket, and then deleted it on Github. Worth paying for the month to have that easy conversion.

Anyway, just thought I'd mention it. Those are the two big places that people are putting things.

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Matthew Jones

Thank you Matthew,

We haven't consider BitBucket yet, will take a look. We should do the migration in the following weeks before december.

Regarding Git, I'been thinking about it but still not sure. What has been your experience with Git over SVN. Is the switch worth it?

Regards,
Mario

Mario Enríquez wrote:

> What has been your experience with Git over SVN. Is the switch worth it?

We don't use any of the fancy things in either product, so the net effect has been that I have to click OK on two more dialogs. But it opens more options, and the answers are all out there on Google as this is not trailblazing at all.

Going to a cloud provider has solved a load of problems. One of the SVN servers I used to use would stop working, and we'd have to kick support to get it back, and that might take days, and there we were trying to collaborate. No longer - always there, and we can point people at a particular web page (authorised) if we want to show them some code that they don't have on their machine.

These are all private repositories. If someone hacks them, the world will know, so we will too, and our code is terrible, so low risk of being a target. 8-)

I did also do my own fork of a public repo - that becomes easy when you are in that world. I can now claim to have done some open source code on my CV. I think they say it is a requirment nowadays. 8-)

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Matthew Jones