An online repository to save my code pieces and algorithms

Question

I'm working as an C/C++ programmer. As I'll be coding, I feel some parts of my code have to be saved for future reference. Since I frequently experiment with my PC, I feel saving in my hard-disk is not a good option. So, I would like to save my pieces of code in some online repository which helps me for future reference of the logics & algos which I've written. Please suggest any app, that save my code pieces. Thank you

Answer 1

Sounds like you need a services to keep notes, not files? Then services like Evernote are your friend.

Answer 2

If it's just for pieces of code/algorithms :

• https://gist.github.com/
• http://pastebin.com/

For "real" projects : https://github.com/

GitHub keeps your public and private code available, secure, and backed up. Stop hoarding code on your hard drive; it takes less than a minute to push code up to GitHub and start collaborating with others.

Answer 3

Dropbox - 2 GB for free.

Please note that most on-line accounts tend to lapse and disappear if unused for some time, not to mention if the save site had an outage.

I would therefore really recommend a local depository, such as an external disk.

Answer 4

• There is github for git, not free.
• There is bitbucket for mercurial, is free.
• There is kiln for mercurial, not free.
• There is assembla for git, mercurial and subversion, not free.

Answer 5

you could always use a subversion repository such as kenai.com which is free and integrates with any subversion client. Then you are able to store snippets within a project or something similar that is backed up.

Failing that, I would suggest Evernote as suggested above.