nest is a lightweight, personal, private GitHub-alike but without
the browsing and merging tools, wiki, bug tracker, social aspects or
any kind of web interface at all.
So really, it's nothing like GitHub.
What it will do is let you store any (reasonable) number of git repositories on a remote *nix system to which you have login privileges and easily clone, pull and push to them from remote clients using only git, Perl 5 and ssh.
Installation is as simple as copying nest into a directory in your
path.
Setting up on the server takes one command:
nest --main
as does setting up a client:
nest --host my.server.com --user nestacct --path GitNest
(Note: it helps a lot if you have ssh-agent set up.)
You import a git repository like this:
cd my-project
nest import my-project
and clone a new copy in the current directory like this:
nest get my-project
Finally, you can make or update a local copy of the entire collection of repositories on the main server like this:
nest fill
This is useful both as a backup and as a way to get at your work when you're offline.
nest checkouts are just git clones and you can treat them as such.
An ordinary git push will push your changes back to the server.
You can find the manual here.
The source for this is in the Pod section of nest and was generated
with pod2markdown as a convenience. If your Perl installation
includes Pod::Usage, you can also read it with:
nest --manual
or with perldoc:
perldoc ./nest
nest is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License
version 2.0. You use it at your OWN RISK.