How many users does the biggest public SVN repo have?
GitHub Hits 1,000,000 users
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Re: GitHub Hits 1,000,000 users
#72When was this reached? I setup an account a few hours ago and have to wonder if I am the millionth user?? ;-)
It wasn't you, we already contacted the 1 millionth user. Nice try though!
Re: GitHub Hits 1,000,000 users
#73Wow, that number almost doesn't seem believable. A million people must be a good chunk of all programmers in the world. This Wikipedia article[1] says there are 612,000 programmers in the US and 522,000 in India. Admittedly old incomplete data but it's easy to see how a million people might be 10-20% of all programmers worldwide. In corporate drone offices I've been in my guess is maybe 10% of programmers have even h…
Do you need an account to be able to report issues or watch projects? Interested bystanders and responsible bug-reporting OSS citizens may account for some of that. I wonder how many of those accounts have active repos of their own?
Yep, that's a valid point. I got my account for more than a year but I use it to report issues and for Gists only.
Re: GitHub Hits 1,000,000 users
#74I love GitHub and when our company recently migrated its code to Git, we were much interested in hosting the code on GitHub. I was surprised that they have a repository size limit, or more precisely I was surprised by how low the limit is. They have no hard quota, but they "don't recommend repository size over 1GB". Plans don't make a difference.
We're a small four-people workshop, but our repos are easily several gigabytes in size because of the artworks, source photos and similar stuff. We would probably have squeezed under their limit, but did not want to live under the constant threat of growing out of it.
So, I love GitHub, will continue using it for my public stuff, but I am surprised you can't easily host 10-15 GBs of private code even though you're willing to pay $50 a month for it.
Re: GitHub Hits 1,000,000 users
#75If you don't like GitHubs pricing model, just download and install Gitorious on your own server. It's open source.
Re: GitHub Hits 1,000,000 users
#76Wow, that number almost doesn't seem believable. A million people must be a good chunk of all programmers in the world. This Wikipedia article[1] says there are 612,000 programmers in the US and 522,000 in India. Admittedly old incomplete data but it's easy to see how a million people might be 10-20% of all programmers worldwide. In corporate drone offices I've been in my guess is maybe 10% of programmers have even h…
I imagine there's also a small, but non-trivial number of people on GitHub who wouldn't be readily identified as programmers. For example, I'm acquainted with a civil engineer that's on GitHub so he can contribute to software used with his astronomy hobby.
also designers. That might be the biggest demographic of "non-programmers" even though the designers on github veer technical.
Re: GitHub Hits 1,000,000 users
#77This made me curious what my user number was. You can see it on your Account page source:
https://skitch.com/e-dasil003/f5nx6/safari
Unfortunately I couldn't figure out a way to explore user numbers like going to /users/5603 for example. That is actually the route for DELETEing your account, but it doesn't have a GET redirect or anything.
Re: GitHub Hits 1,000,000 users
#78GitHub is basically the Facebook of software developers and I think it is eating LinkedIn's launch.
Re: GitHub Hits 1,000,000 users
#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
Then use bitbucket, recently after they updated the website its actually really good service
BitBucket is also very nice for students, their deal gives you unlimited private repos among other things, far more generous than GitHub.
Did they change that recently? For as long as I have been on Bitbucket I have had LOADS of private repos ...
Re: GitHub Hits 1,000,000 users
#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
Please don't ever do this, unless you wish to invite Dropbox's file syncing to destroy your repo. (See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1964347/mercurial-and-i-g... and http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1960799/using-gitdropbox-... )
The top-rated answer there warmly recommends using Git on top of DB.
Yes. I'm sure it works for the common case. It's the edge-case problems outlined in the answers below it that worry me more.
Going out on a limb: I'd assume that if you care enough about your data to version it in a git repo, then I'd also assume that you'd not enjoy it exploding because of a sync problem between two computers.