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I am looking for a free private online Bazaar source host. Does anybody know of any? I had a quick look and it seems there are lots of Git, Mercurial, and SVN options, but no Bazaar?

Just to clarify, when I say "private" I mean in the sense that you get your own private repository where you can grant access to people you choose.

durron597
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Andrew
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    AFAIK Git (github) does not offer private hosting for free, only for small fee. Mercurial (bitbucket) does. – bialix Sep 08 '09 at 05:20
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    wow - it's been ages since I asked this question. If anyone is interested, although Launchpad was the best Bazaar online hosting solution, I ended up using Bitbucket, which is not Bazaar, but Mercurial. I found launchpad/Bazaar to be a little difficult to use, whereas I found bitbucket/Mercurial to be quite intuitive (for me). Bitbucket also supports private repos (you can determine who has access to view/check-in/etc). Anyway, hopefully that information helps someone out! – Andrew Jun 03 '11 at 08:40
  • Not sure if it did at the time of your asking, but Bitbucket also supports Git. I am still looking for a free private Bazaar host. – burfl Mar 20 '13 at 20:04
  • Yep, I asked this question before Bitbucket did Git. Now I use Git instead of Mercurial on Bitbucket! Thanks for the comment. – Andrew Apr 15 '13 at 05:06

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Bazaar can host branches over FTP. So if you have free private FTP hosting you can use it for free private bzr repository.

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Two options for you :

The really private, with team support :

  • Use a private SFTP or FTPS server. If you already have a web host you probably can use it for this. You can also serve a personal SFTP/FTPS server on your computer (for example you can use OpenSSH for SFTP or Pure-FTP or VSFTPD for FTPS, all of which are quick to setup on a Linux and Unix machines).

The personal sandbox , without team :

  • At Launchpad ! You can freely use a personal "junk" repo at Launchpad, but without team support. Very useful if your are working on a starter project but do not want to publish it to early. You can also use it for home<->work exchanges. See https://help.launchpad.net/Code/PersonalBranches
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miniwark
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http://launchpad.net - free bazaar hosting... but I don't know what do you mean by access - I think that is has same functionalisty as github (we are using it working with Moovida) but I am not quite sure.

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  • Yes, we tried launchpad. Unfortunately, I do not believe they allow for making repositories private (as in you can restrict access to the repos)/ – Andrew Sep 08 '09 at 22:42
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    @Andrew: you can make private repositories on LP, but you have to pay for that. – PhiLho Oct 20 '09 at 15:06
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    Launchpad now offers private Launchpad hosting, including Bazaar repositories. It's on the order of US$250/year, and apparently they're fairly flexible since it's early days. http://blog.launchpad.net/general/new-privacy-features-for-commercial-subscribers – rcoup Nov 08 '09 at 21:18
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I just found out my current web hosting provider (http://www.webfaction.com) provides 1-command installation of bzr, plus easy instructions for installing loggerhead. Possibly others do as well, but this is the first one I've heard of.

http://docs.webfaction.com/software/bazaar.html

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See http://wiki.bazaar.canonical.com/Hosting for a list of known hosting providers for Bazaar. There are no free hosters of private branches that I'm aware of.

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Launchpad.net

Its the home of the ubuntu disto, but its open to host any project and they use bazaar as their primary VCS tool.

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Just found that Codebase provides free plan with one project/repo: git, svn, mercurial or bazaar, at your choice.

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