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Announcing unlimited free private repos

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Re: Announcing unlimited free private repos

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Thank you. > focus on just packaging related features within GitLab I'm curious what you mean by that?

We have established teams for each of our DevOps stages: https://about.gitlab.com/stages-devops-lifecycle/ Package encompasses both the Container Registry, as well as other repository types like Maven, NPM, etc.

Ah. So you mean "packaging-related features", not "packaging related features"?

Re: Announcing unlimited free private repos

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I don't understand that much awe. BitBucket offers unlimited private repos for up to 5 contributors, and GitLab has no limit . Much ado about nothing...

Is there a difference in the features between GitLab's free public vs. private repos? On GitHub, there is, but the blog post glosses over that.

Re: Announcing unlimited free private repos

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I think I'm the only person who's noticed that these free private repos are 2nd tier, with features removed; the marketing glosses over that.

The press release barely mentions it but it's true. The free private repos are cut down, including bizarre hold-backs like wikis. GitHub's wikis aren't great, but why hold them back? It's kind of mind boggling.

Re: Announcing unlimited free private repos

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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…

This came at the right time. I was looking into LambCI but it only supports github. I was using bitbucket for private repos. Checkout: https://github.com/lambci/lambci/blob/master/README.md It only supports github. For my hobby projects i can't afford to host gitlab CI/Jenkins or pay for premium CI services. Now, i can run my tests on Lambda,yay!

But beware and read the pricing sheet --- GitHub created a dumbed-down repo type for these new free private repos.

Re: Announcing unlimited free private repos

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Don't know what it is exactly. But definitely within the last year, I'll occasionally add a >10MB pdf or something and can't push that commit up, broken socket everytime. Same thing occasionally happens with a coworker. I 'fix' it by having someone else push the file, then delete the offending commit. Happens with bash in windows or GitHub Desktop. No one has ever been able to fix it. I have just tried to not use lar…

That sounds annoying to deal with, I'm sorry this happens. I'm not sure what the best next step is.

Yea, IDK. I’ll watch for it again, but in the meantime; it’s very nice to have the CEO of gitlab ask me about my silly large file problem :) If I ever consider leaving Gitlab I’ll weight this exchange against that.

Re: Announcing unlimited free private repos

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I think I'm the only person who's noticed that these free private repos are 2nd tier, with features removed; the marketing glosses over that.

The press release barely mentions it but it's true. The free private repos are cut down, including bizarre hold-backs like wikis. GitHub's wikis aren't great, but why hold them back? It's kind of mind boggling.

You got it. Only the detailed pricing compared has what might be the full list of features removed. You have to scroll down ... https://github.com/pricing#feature-comparison

And look for the "Public repositories" note in the table.

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Even if Github doesn’t end up being a typical “social network”, this still allows Microsoft to push out the competition (Gitlab, Bitbucket) and become the de facto developer workbench in the industry. MS already released a hit with VSCode and won back a lot of street cred with developers who moved over from Atom/Sublime/etc. Having free private repos just makes sense in order to seal the deal with consumers, and migr…

Don't forget Typescript too! I've heard nothing but good things about it

I use it daily and it's great. Can't think of starting a serious javascript project without it.

Re: Announcing unlimited free private repos

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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).

Maybe not so smart when devs realize that the free private "repos" have features removed that have been standard. The marketing avoids this fact. You need to scroll down to the "Comparison" section to see it. https://github.com/pricing#feature-comparison
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