Suppose I'm building some kind of collaborative text editor like JSFiddle. I would like to know where sites like these store all the source code files. I don't want to use Github to store the files since I want total control over the files.
I would suggest the following:
For code snippets use Gist gist.github.com ( It has syntax coloring, it's fast and reliabe, you can create secret gists)
And for storing source code files you can just use the plain GitHub functionality.
Hope this helps,
Alex S.
Gergely Polonkai
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Gergely Polonkai
You have to believe in things that are not true. How else would they become?
Given your requirements, I think a Git repository might suffice, at least for a start.
If you want true collaborative editing, though, (as in, two separate developer working on the same file, Google Docs style), that needs a much sophisticated system, and I haven't found an open source solution for that. If you are willing to create one, I'm all ears, and count me in as a contributor!