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$9 vs $20?
linode is expensive, you can find some cheap vps for less than 10$
or you can pay the dude the $9 and have your problem solved quickly and easily
Why I've built an alternative to Github
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Re: Why I've built an alternative to Github
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Technically, yes.. waving your command line wand IS a solution. But also, technically, there isn't any reason why you shouldn't be able to keep 100+ small remote git repositories active for less than $100/month. Also, Github doesn't require you to know how to use tar, S3, or have any other Linux experience. So why should this particular use case? Why wouldn't a business be able to cater to that market? This is a busi…
> Github doesn't require you to know how to use tar ... or have any other Linux experience You don't need tar to package a git versioned project. All you need is some kind of zip program, and every major OS has one built in. The difference knowledge it requires to just zip up a directory and send it in an email, versus running a github connection is so minimal its laughable that anyone suggests that you need some kin…
Yes, you can zip up a repo easily. But where do you store it? Do you really want to save it in your email instead of saving it in some kind of source control so that you can use it as such if you need to quickly commit some change?
Saving it to S3 is an option, but then you have to create that account too. Why shouldn't you be able to just use one account?
Re: Why I've built an alternative to Github
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I don't see the parallel. Quite the opposite; he's displeased with what he sees as GitHub's high price for their lowest-tier paid account, and developed an alternative that costs less and offers more of the "bare bones" stuff (more space, unlimited private repos) instead of focusing on the higher-level collaboration tools and web interfaces. How does a reference to someone finding little friction to paying multiple t…
"[...] he's displeased with what he sees as GitHub's high price for their lowest-tier paid account [...] " And I'm arguing that his displeasure with GitHub's price comes from the fact that he's underestimating the extra amount of time he will have to spend as a user of CodePlane because CodePlane is not remotely as polished as GitHub. I'm arguing that this extra amount of time will not be worth the difference in pric…
bitch, please. let the good man have his time building an app. be openminded. otherwise we would be discussing launchpad and sourceforge yet.
Re: Why I've built an alternative to Github
#155I think that anyone who complains about GitHub's price has gotten way too spoiled, or perhaps underestimates the amount of effort required to maintain a service of that quality and reliability. I find this to be another symptom of HN tunnel vision.
Hmm. Why is it necessary to overly generalize and disparage folks who don't seem to think precisely the way you think in order to make a point?
Re: Why I've built an alternative to Github
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"[...] he's displeased with what he sees as GitHub's high price for their lowest-tier paid account [...] " And I'm arguing that his displeasure with GitHub's price comes from the fact that he's underestimating the extra amount of time he will have to spend as a user of CodePlane because CodePlane is not remotely as polished as GitHub. I'm arguing that this extra amount of time will not be worth the difference in pric…
And I'm arguing that his displeasure with GitHub's price comes from the fact that he's underestimating the extra amount of time he will have to spend as a user of CodePlane because CodePlane is not remotely as polished as GitHub. I'm arguing that this extra amount of time will not be worth the difference in price. Yes, I get that. I just don't agree, and presumably he doesn't either. It's not just collaboration and w…
Well said sir/madam.. well said
Re: Why I've built an alternative to Github
#157If your developers are spending more than 5 minutes a month managing, monitoring and looking after their repositories then you are doing it wrong.
Github's monthly fees are so much cheaper than the cost of your developers time and happiness.
Re: Why I've built an alternative to Github
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Hg is marginally slower, but not so you'd really notice. If you're crunching 20,000-line files on a regular basis it might be a concern. On repos of that size, I doubt you'd notice. Git is a great tool for what it was built for and the group of users it was intended for--that is, rapid, tons-of-merges-and-pulls development on a gigantic codebase, for users for whom it is acceptable for man pages to serve as reminders…
The fact that all the tools can push to github make it easy to switch, which I just might do again. bzr was great, except for the fact that it just doesn't have that much traction...
I found bzr to be much as you described it - like hg, but slower. Nothing objectionable about the workflow (though the tools on Windows were very poor, I wasn't using Windows much at the time), just the perf on a particularly large chunk of code.
Re: Why I've built an alternative to Github
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> Github doesn't require you to know how to use tar ... or have any other Linux experience You don't need tar to package a git versioned project. All you need is some kind of zip program, and every major OS has one built in. The difference knowledge it requires to just zip up a directory and send it in an email, versus running a github connection is so minimal its laughable that anyone suggests that you need some kin…
Yes, you can zip up a repo easily. But where do you store it? Do you really want to save it in your email instead of saving it in some kind of source control so that you can use it as such if you need to quickly commit some change? Saving it to S3 is an option, but then you have to create that account too. Why shouldn't you be able to just use one account?
If your goal is to have only one account, and you presumably also back things up that are not under version control (who doesn't?), then S3 is clearly the more appropriate route since it can do both.
Re: Why I've built an alternative to Github
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You have to be a hacker to know how to host a repo now?
Getting a Git repo setup with a web accessible interface is not trivial and for the time spent doing it, you could be doing other things like ... you know ... writing code to make you money.
Gitweb is exceedingly simple to set up...