Assembla now offers free private Git and SVN Repository Hosting

I could have sworn their accounts used to be free and then they took away the free accounts in 2008. <a href="http://blog.assembla.com/assemblablog/tabid/12618/bid/7019/New-subscription-plans-Clarification-and-even-better-pricing.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://blog.assembla.com/assemblablog/tabid/12618/bid/7019/N...</a><p>I remember because we were using assembla for some stuff and then moved away when they started charging. I guess that move didn't work too well for them.

This is fairly worrying:<p>"When you go to create a space, if you do not have your own plan, you will see a field with the prompt "If another subscriber will pay for this space please, provide his email or login". Enter the information for the subscriber. We will assign the new space to the subscriber, and that person will get a note with the option to decline."<p>So if I don't check my mail someone could bill me for their spaces because I didn't give my disapproval. Um, I'm pretty sure I have to explicitly agree to pay for a service, not disagree to not pay for it.

All the hippies are using GitHub (me included), but with free private hosting, I'm going to try Assembla out.<p>Good move, Assembla.

For 6 usd/month, unlimited git and svn, trac and webdav and automatic backups, I'm a happy RepositoryHosting (<a href="http://repositoryhosting.com/" rel="nofollow">http://repositoryhosting.com/</a>) user.

Unfuddle has been doing this for a while.

I'd really love to move to Assembla but the packages are a bit strange, starts 40 users and 1 repo? I carn't see many projects having 40 users and only one project at a time, I did ask if I could sacrifice some users for repo's, we work with smaller teams so 10 repo's and 10 users but they declined.<p>The pay as you go is great until you realise you have to pay for each member of the team and each project, so if I work on two 'spaces' I'm classed as two separate users... it soon gets expensive

Assembla is great. The only reason that I stopped using them is because they stopped offering free services. Glad to see that it is back

Sorry, but after what they did when they closed the free private accounts some time ago, I ain't going to touch it again.

I just signed up to try it. Comprehensive but simple UI. EXCEPT, in free mode it LITERS the interface trying to get you to upgrade. I don't use much of the social features of github for private projects so it still might work and I'll just never log into the website... really annoying ads though.

As a business hacker, this reminds me that when your costs are cheap enough, a free version that your customers can use properly is the best possible advertising. Like the shareware version of Doom.<p>As a code hacker, I've just setup a git repository with them. They have superb help - cut-and-paste to set up your ssh key, start a git repository and push it to them. Great for learning git.

is there any good non-commandline way of using git on windows osx and linux ?<p>SmartGit comes to mind, but what are you guys using ?

Like justinchen said they already offered free SVN and GIT hosting. Then one day they sent out newsletter saying that they're not providing free hosting anymore and that all repositories will be made public. I had to move all my projects to another repository and promised myself never to go back. I don't trust them, sorry!

I might have to downgrade my Github account and move my private repositories over to Assembla.

i just got a free repository at assembla. they try to sell you a server at rackspace. if they can make some money doing that, more power to them. it's not presented in an obtrusive way. maybe that's how they will pay for free

This is great. So far I have resisted moving all of our repositories from self-hosted SVN to Github only because it's not free, and I don't see enough benefit to pay for it.<p>However, we could definitely use Assembla

I have a couple of open projects on Assembla. I've been very happy with their service and up time. I find Git to be an overkill for the kind of things I need, so SVN is just what I need.

Goodbye to Github. Goodbye to the private Git repo on my VPS!