Why I use gitolite
Whereas github is great for hosting your public repositories, as soon as you want to use many private remote repositories you should consider other options. First because it's going to cost you some money and because it's always a good idea to avoid scatter your private stuffs on external server (Yes I know, as a google minion I'm not a good example...) Among the many options to hosts your remote git repo, I've found gitolite to be the best one to suit my needs, let me explain why : * I firmly believe in the KISS principle, and the fact that you don't need to use another daemon (it just uses sshd) is very appealing to me. (Other solutions often requiring to setup an apache/Webdav vhosts, git-daemon or whatever) * Fine-grained access control : gitolite really shines in this aspect In addition to the usual read/write/read&write gitolite provides access to 'non-fast forward push', branches creation/deletion, write deny and extends t...