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Daniel Pfeffer22-Feb-15 8:33
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Marc Clifton22-Feb-15 5:45
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There's other options out there besides GitHub, BitBucket for example was mentioned.

I often meet your criteria: don't need to collaborate, don't need source control, not interested in sharing the code, etc.

I still however used, for years, SVN because I wanted an offsite backup to important docs, and I am often working on my laptop somewhere, and so I'm frequently collaborating with myself, if you will.

The most important reason for using GitHub, specifically, is that in the last year, as I've poked around on occasion for contract jobs, every single potential lead has asked me for my GitHub account to see some sample code.

You may not be looking for work now, but it's a really good thing to start building your code base, your commit history, etc., for some projects you are OK with making public. In fact, my github account is now a standard part of my resume.

Marc

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