Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub • Hacker News Board

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by the_trapper » Sun, Jun 03, 2018, 8:34 PM UTC

madspindel wrote: post #4

Tbh, I like this move. I hope they will merge Atom with VS Code and shutdown VSTS in favor for GitHub.

I'm also optimistic they'll revamp GitHub's pricing structure. Their current price of $7 a month is absolutely absurd for individual developers. I can get a pretty decent VPS for $2 a month cheaper. Considering that most of their competitors give small teams free private repos, their price should be half of that. I understand that they have a lot of open source projects to subsidize and all, but I highly doubt a lot of individual developers are biting at that price.

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by amagasaki » Sun, Jun 03, 2018, 8:34 PM UTC

obl wrote: post #16

Tangentially related, but maybe microsoft could actually do that : why is github's search so terribly bad ? If they had developed a good powerful code search (custom semantic engine for most used languages, complex queries, exact/fuzzy matches for syntax, use of history, etc) they could have become the primary way you interact with code you don't know yet. As it stands now it's simply more efficient to clone and use…

That would be really great. To improve looking through new repos at least a litte bit I like the browser plugin [Octotree](https://github.com/buunguyen/octotree), it adds a tree view of the code and eases jumping between files.

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by stock_toaster » Sun, Jun 03, 2018, 8:34 PM UTC

Soonds like a good time for gitlab to go fundraising!

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by gurkendoktor » Sun, Jun 03, 2018, 8:35 PM UTC

dabockster wrote: post #13

jstanley wrote: post #10

Step 1: Embrace.

We still have Gitlab if MSFT decides to do anything malicious.

I don't think the big loss here is GitHub-the-software, but this short sweet period in time where everyone, from Microsoft to Apple, had their source code on the same platform. I doubt that e.g. Swift would have moved to GitHub if it had already been owned by Microsoft.

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by shmerl » Sun, Jun 03, 2018, 8:35 PM UTC

dghughes wrote: post #73

shmerl wrote: post #2

I guess it's time to move to Gitlab.

I thought many people did after the infamous incident at Github.

Some did, but this will be another major incentive.

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by ggregoire » Sun, Jun 03, 2018, 8:35 PM UTC

salmonfamine wrote: post #64

Anyone know the easiest way to migrate to GitLab?

Click on “import from GitHub” when you create a new repo.

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by zackya89 » Sun, Jun 03, 2018, 8:35 PM UTC

mikece wrote: post #48

gressquel wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am gonna wait and see. I know they messed up Skype really bad, but LinkedIN for example they havent touched and destroyed. I will wait and see..

Microsoft screwed up Skype by trying to “make it more Microsoft” whereas LinkedIn is being left to operate as before (tough MSFT is using the data for something). My guess is that GitHub will continue as before with the main change being that MSDN subscribers will likely get private GitHub repos as part of their package. Now MSFT just needs something along the lines of Jira to replace the dog’s breakfast that is VSTS…

You dont pay 2 Billion, and leave it untouched, they see an earnings potential in the company given the right management and shareholders expect ROI that is higher then the average market return

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by singularity2001 » Sun, Jun 03, 2018, 8:35 PM UTC

Github to Gitlab migration:

https://gitlab.com/import/github/new

EDIT: the old links were useless:

https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/import/github.html

I'm stuck here:

https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/integration/github.html

what is the gitlab Authorization callback URL?

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by kworker » Sun, Jun 03, 2018, 8:36 PM UTC

nicoburns wrote: post #44

I worry about github too. BUT, at least with github most of the data is open. And they have a worthy competitor in Gitlab. Might be a bit of disruption if MS mess things up, but not a disaster.

Why not self-hosting?

Re: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

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Post by noitsnot » Sun, Jun 03, 2018, 8:36 PM UTC

gressquel wrote: post #27

lkrubner wrote: post #17

I'm worried. Consider what happened to Skype. Consider what happened to LinkedIn. I worry something similar will happen to Github. And I love Github. At some point Microsoft told me I had to change my password for Skype. The "Reset your password" process failed 6 times in a row. I eventually had to create a new, Microsoft ID, to use Skype. I lost all of my old contacts and had to slowly recreate my address book. This…

what did they do with LinkedIn?? I havent noticed any change. as for Skype, its completely ruined. I have it installed but I am scared to open it. Horrible GUI. Constant updates and generally just useless now.

I think it has actually improved. They added messaging and now I can get real-time recruiter spam to ignore.