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I like the fact that Google Code is a free option for Mercurial hosting but, in the test project I set up I couldn't find a way to designate the repository as private.

Ideally I would like to work on a project privately until it is ready for the world to see and only then open it up to others.

Is there any way to do that on Google Code?

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You can always use bitbucket.

Tordek
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I'm pretty sure the answer is no...the whole point of Google Code is free hosting for open source projects. Open source projects by their nature are not private. If you are planning on releasing the code for free, why so worried about keeping it private? Nobody is going to care if you publish unfinished code...I mean that's 90% of the open source projects online.

Another thought...isn't Mercurial a distributed source code control system? Couldn't you just run the Mercurial locally until you are ready to publish, then at that point push it up to Google Code?

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Bitbucket allows one private repository for each free account.

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    UPDATE: in the meantime Bitbucket was acquired by Atlassian, and they changed the plans: now every user can have unlimited private repositories, the only thing that depends on the plan is the number of users that can access these private repositories. In the free plan the maximum is 5 users. – Christian Specht Jun 09 '11 at 20:12
  • oh wow that is AWESOME! i wish i had found out about this earlier. – KJW Feb 11 '12 at 10:44
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You may want to vote/star issue 1829:

Provide support for proprietary licensed projects with private access.

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