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Re: GitHub Hits 1,000,000 users

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Post by icebraining »

KVFinn wrote: post #5
xorglorb wrote: post #3

They provide a great service, and I use them all the time, but I don't like how their pricing scheme works for freelancers. You end up with a million small private repositories, and BitBucket has much more reasonable options.

Yeah, it's ridiculous. I have enough repos that I'd need the Platinum 200 dollar a month plan. All the repos are small and most are updated once or twice a year -- but the pricing is the same as if I had a whole team of people pushing to github every day.

But what's the point of having those on Github anyway? GH is great for teams or for sharing your code with 'the community', but I don't see what it buys you for private, single developer projects over a directory in your drive(s).

Re: GitHub Hits 1,000,000 users

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Post by percent20 »

xorglorb wrote: post #3

They provide a great service, and I use them all the time, but I don't like how their pricing scheme works for freelancers. You end up with a million small private repositories, and BitBucket has much more reasonable options.

Another new service on the scene, providing cheap unlimited git hosting repositories, is sourcehold.com specifically to help solve this problem.

Full Disclosure: I am writing it, and it is still in beta.

Re: GitHub Hits 1,000,000 users

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Post by Pyrodogg »

icebraining wrote: post #11
KVFinn wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, it's ridiculous. I have enough repos that I'd need the Platinum 200 dollar a month plan. All the repos are small and most are updated once or twice a year -- but the pricing is the same as if I had a whole team of people pushing to github every day.

But what's the point of having those on Github anyway? GH is great for teams or for sharing your code with 'the community', but I don't see what it buys you for private, single developer projects over a directory in your drive(s).

Code availability from anywhere without having to manage your own repo server.

Even for a single dev it might be worth it to be able to check out to your normal dev workstation, your laptop, and even on a totally random pc when the need arises. It also allows you to checkup on things through the web when a pc to checkout on isn't available.

Re: GitHub Hits 1,000,000 users

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Post by dmpayton »

icebraining wrote: post #11
KVFinn wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, it's ridiculous. I have enough repos that I'd need the Platinum 200 dollar a month plan. All the repos are small and most are updated once or twice a year -- but the pricing is the same as if I had a whole team of people pushing to github every day.

But what's the point of having those on Github anyway? GH is great for teams or for sharing your code with 'the community', but I don't see what it buys you for private, single developer projects over a directory in your drive(s).

One side-affect of having your projects on Github is that they are now backed up and you won't lose all your work if you drop your laptop or your drive goes kaboom.

Re: GitHub Hits 1,000,000 users

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Post by frisco »

How are they measuring users here? Is this all-time-registrations? Or "actives"? Because if this is registrations, I thought they were a lot bigger already. Regardless, awesome!

Re: GitHub Hits 1,000,000 users

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Post by icebraining »

Pyrodogg wrote: post #13
icebraining wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But what's the point of having those on Github anyway? GH is great for teams or for sharing your code with 'the community', but I don't see what it buys you for private, single developer projects over a directory in your drive(s).

Code availability from anywhere without having to manage your own repo server. Even for a single dev it might be worth it to be able to check out to your normal dev workstation, your laptop, and even on a totally random pc when the need arises. It also allows you to checkup on things through the web when a pc to checkout on isn't available.

Yeah, I guess I assume any developer has some online "drive", be it Dropbox, a NAS or just some web based storage. That's all you really need for a git repository.

Re: GitHub Hits 1,000,000 users

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Post by [deleted] »

dmpayton wrote: post #15
icebraining wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But what's the point of having those on Github anyway? GH is great for teams or for sharing your code with 'the community', but I don't see what it buys you for private, single developer projects over a directory in your drive(s).

One side-affect of having your projects on Github is that they are now backed up and you won't lose all your work if you drop your laptop or your drive goes kaboom.

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Re: GitHub Hits 1,000,000 users

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Post by glenngillen »

Pyrodogg wrote: post #13
icebraining wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But what's the point of having those on Github anyway? GH is great for teams or for sharing your code with 'the community', but I don't see what it buys you for private, single developer projects over a directory in your drive(s).

Code availability from anywhere without having to manage your own repo server. Even for a single dev it might be worth it to be able to check out to your normal dev workstation, your laptop, and even on a totally random pc when the need arises. It also allows you to checkup on things through the web when a pc to checkout on isn't available.

And for a single dev who actually has a need to be concerned about all of these things, $200/month doesn't seem unreasonable to have someone else manage it all for you.

The alternative is of course to run your own repo server as you said, which with git can be as simple as just a directory you can access via SSH.

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