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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 GordonS »

paxys wrote: post #86
GordonS wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yep, although one of the products this competes with is Azure DevOps - which also offers unlimited git repos... and is of course also owned by Microsoft! I'm wondering what the future holds for both GitHub and Azure DevOps. I actually use both, and have done for several years, and they're both great products - I'd hate for either of them to go away.

Azure DevOps is a lot more than just source control, so there isn't all that much overlap with what GitHub offers. I imagine the future will be GitHub for VCS, issues, project management and Azure for CI/CD, testing and deployment.

Agreed, but I wouldn't be surprised if we soon saw deep integration into Azure DevOps Pipelines from GitHub - what then?

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Post by ianwalter »

snorremd wrote: post #225
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.

It does. I'm using them now, but they might still be only available to beta users right now.

Re: Announcing unlimited free private repos

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Post by tinyhouse »

bovermyer wrote: post #227

Anyone know when this is supposed to be turned on? I'm still seeing the old system/verbiage on the GitHub Billing page.

They just updated it a few minutes ago! By the time the blog post was out it was still asking for a credit card. Now it doesn't. They really rushed things out because of that TNW mistake!

Like many others here I'm also pretty happy about it. $7/month is not a lot of money but I also moved some personal private repos to BitBucket to avoid the fees. I will probably go back now.

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Post by corobo »

petetnt wrote: post #215
vips7L wrote: post #179

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same, especially the free built-in CI.

GitHub also has a free built-in* CI service via Azure Pipelines. How does that compare to the GitLab offerings? https://github.com/marketplace/azure-pipelines * in marketplace, limitations apply

Honestly I'm almost at the point where I'd prefer to manually perform CI tasks than use anything Microsoft.

Why on earth are there so many domains in their login flow? My password manager can't make heads nor tails of it 90% of the time

Re: Announcing unlimited free private repos

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Post by nambit »

moritzplassnig wrote: post #240
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…

When GitHub's financials got leaked in 2016, GitHub's personal accounts accounted for 12.5% of their revenue. GitHub Enterprise was 50%, their organization (= business) accounts were the remaining 37.5% [1]. It's fair to say that the personal accounts are irrelevant from a revenue perspective. [1] https://medium.com/@moritzplassnig/github-is-doing-much-bett... (disclaimer: I wrote the article but the data is by Bloom…

12.5% is still a significant percent of revenue.

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Post by asdfman123 »

klinskyc wrote: post #39

While understandable, this is sad to see. The amount of interesting and useful code that is currently available due to GitHub defaulting to public will likely be seriously negatively impacted by this.

I feel like most people either want their code public (they want to share their projects with the world) or they want it private (they don't want the rest of the world to see their embarrassing toy projects).

I think the projects that could go either way -- that are public just because it's cheaper than private -- probably aren't that common or that important.

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Post by jmkni »

bravura wrote: post #106

"Private repositories on free accounts are limited to three collaborators apiece." So let's be clear here. If I have 10 private repos, I can have 30 collaborators? Or they must be the same three.

Also, if you fork a private repo, I wonder if that’s 3 new collaborators? Could you have essentially unlimited collaborators by forking for each person and having them submit pull requests?

Re: Announcing unlimited free private repos

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Post by ianwalter »

cturhan wrote: post #206
ianwalter wrote: post #142

Earlier quoted context omitted.

GitHub Actions is going to be GitHub CI for me: https://github.com/features/actions

I'm pretty sure it will be paid feature in near future.

Not for public pipelines. I don't think it will be for personal private repos either. I'm sure they will add pricing plans that allow you to execute more pipelines in parallel, etc though. What makes you so sure it will be a paid feature?

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Post by hellofunk »

StavrosK wrote: post #96
balls187 wrote: post #38

This is a smart move. Gives developers who have small indy projects a reason to use Github rather than a competitor (I know I use gitlab precisely because it's free for my private one-off repos).

My move to Gitlab was basically "come for the free repos, stay for the rest of the amazing features". I will not be moving off it, and my new repos will keep being on Gitlab.

What features of Gitlab do you prefer?

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Post by beagle3 »

moritzplassnig wrote: post #240
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…

When GitHub's financials got leaked in 2016, GitHub's personal accounts accounted for 12.5% of their revenue. GitHub Enterprise was 50%, their organization (= business) accounts were the remaining 37.5% [1]. It's fair to say that the personal accounts are irrelevant from a revenue perspective. [1] https://medium.com/@moritzplassnig/github-is-doing-much-bett... (disclaimer: I wrote the article but the data is by Bloom…

In what world is 12.5% of revenue "irrelevant"? The 37.5% business revenue is just 3 times as much (so almost as irrelevant), and Enterprise is only 4 times is much (again, almost as irrelevant).

Unless .. all github revenue is irrelevant for Microsoft - which might be true, for all I know.

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