On Jun 13, 7:30 am, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: > > You should be wary of GitHub, a very popular Git hosting site. It uses > what amount to proprietary protocols, which encourage using GitHub's > specific interface instead of native Git for your operations and hide a > lot of the needless complexity; but this results in a VCS repository > that is difficult to use *without* being tied to that specific site, > killing one of the best reasons to use a DVCS in the first place.
bitbucket -- originally only Hg based -- now supports Hg or git. And for small private (non open source) repos its more affordable http://tilomitra.com/bitbucket-vs-github/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list