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Announcing unlimited free private repos

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Re: Announcing unlimited free private repos

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Post by freehunter »

aflag wrote: post #174
andybak wrote: post #148

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Isn't a migration back just a git clone away? Assuming you're not using Issues or anything non-portable.

That would just be more time wasting. I think he is regretting ever spending time on that.

Yep it's the time I spent making the decision (Gitlab isn't the only other choice, and I did a bit of research), then changing my scripts to point to Gitlab instead of Github and letting a couple of testers know where to go to file issues then familiarizing myself with Gitlab's interface.

Not a huge amount of time, but since I only have about 2-3 hours per day to work on the technology side of the business, it was a couple of days worth of hours from the time I decided I needed to cut spending to the time I had Gitlab integrated into my stack. It was a couple of days I didn't have to spend improving the product, even though it was a win from a financial standpoint.

And now with this announcement, it was hardly even a financial win. Oh well. I don't have the time or desire to migrate back.

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Post by snorremd »

fuddle wrote: post #49

Now I'm just waiting for GitHub CI. :)

Maybe Github Actions qualify? https://github.com/features/actions I must say it looks almost like Gitlab's pipeline system, but somewhat more flexible. If Github's free plan allows you to use pipelines I might just have to test it to compare.

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Post by nafizh »

drewrv wrote: post #210
iambateman wrote: post #190

A lot of people are concerned about the “what if they make me the product since I’m no longer paying.” A few reasons I don’t think that will happen: - private, single contributor repos tend to be pretty small. it costs Github very little to service a single account. - Github is a growing social network for developers. Getting young engineers on the platform for free will pay off handsomely when they join a team and a…

> GitHub is in the strange position of being both a successful enterprise product AND a social network. What other product exists with that kind of crossover? LinkedIn comes to mind, which was also aquired by Microsoft.

LinkedIn might be successful, but its ugliness and spammy nature is in stark contrast with Github.

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Post by ocdtrekkie »

I've been wanting to move a bunch of my old code into GitHub just for my own convenience, but have strained a bit on what I do and don't want to share publicly. Will probably take advantage of this and move most of it in private, and then gradually shift things to public as I'm comfortable with it.

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Post by FooBarWidget »

bepotts wrote: post #84
saagarjha wrote: post #8

I'm curious if GitHub is now a loss leader for Microsoft, or if personal subscriptions were a small portion of their revenue.

I always believed Microsoft saw GitHub as a potential "in" for millions of developers, rather than a product that could generate revenue. This move doesn't worry me, as I'm sure Microsoft would look to do something easy to calm the nerves of people who worried about Microsoft's acquisition. The cynic in me sees this as sweetener for Microsoft's later moves to integrate GitHub with Microsoft's developer tools, which w…

Why would better integration between Github and Microsoft dev tools be a bad thing?
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