Bitbucket now rocks Git

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Post by amitparikh » Mon, Oct 03, 2011, 4:12 PM UTC

Bitbucket now rocks Git
blog.bitbucket.org

Re: Bitbucket now rocks Git

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Post by dhimes » Mon, Oct 03, 2011, 4:22 PM UTC

store every line of code you’ve ever wrote in one place without paying a cent

Great news (and thanks)! However, please s/wrote/written/

EDIT: I see they fixed the copy.

Re: Bitbucket now rocks Git

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Post by mushishi » Mon, Oct 03, 2011, 4:26 PM UTC

As a daily Bitbucket user, I appreciate their efforts. But unfortunately I don't see improvement on navigation. It's quite painful to browse source code via web. If I just want to quickly look at someone's repository, I will make a lot of browsing, and it's just way too slow.

Compare it to Github's slick UI: https://github.com/blog/760-the-tree-slider

But I am optimistic Bitbucket will change it for the better.

Re: Bitbucket now rocks Git

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Post by LeafStorm » Mon, Oct 03, 2011, 4:27 PM UTC

You know, I actually expected that the opposite would happen: GitHub would start offering Mercurial hosting.

Because Git isn't what attracts most people to GitHub. It's the sheer fact that GitHub is frickin' HUGE and has lots of people who will show up, fork your project, and send you a pull request. I love Bitbucket, but honestly if GitHub added Mercurial support I would probably move all the way to GitHub because of the size of the community.

GitHub is already pretty firmly entrenched in the Git community. I will say, however, that Bitbucket has one primary advantage over GitHub: Unlimited private repositories, with the cost being based on how many collaborators you have. If Bitbucket really promotes this angle, I could see a lot of small development teams moving to Bitbucket, and possibly taking their talent with them. So, if Bitbucket really pushes the "unlimited private repositories" angle, then they could begin taking back market share from GitHub.

Re: Bitbucket now rocks Git

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Post by sosuke » Mon, Oct 03, 2011, 4:28 PM UTC

The only reason I went with Bitbucket over Github for my own source control was the availability of free private repositories that Github charges for. Now I've got the best of both source control solutions!

Re: Bitbucket now rocks Git

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Post by heisenmink » Mon, Oct 03, 2011, 4:28 PM UTC

This is really good news.

The greatest strength they have over Github right now is unlimited private git repositories (github only allows 1 private repo for free accounts), free of charge.

Re: Bitbucket now rocks Git

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Post by rmc » Mon, Oct 03, 2011, 4:28 PM UTC

Bitbucket (a popular mercurial hosting site) has added git support.

Has any popular git hosting site added mercurial support?

This shows which DVCS is winning.

Re: Bitbucket now rocks Git

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Oct 03, 2011, 4:29 PM UTC

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Re: Bitbucket now rocks Git

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Post by johnthedebs » Mon, Oct 03, 2011, 4:30 PM UTC

This is great news, very exciting for people who need a nice place to stash all their private git repos but didn't want to upgrade their GitHub plans for not-that-important projects. Very interesting that they've decided to compete directly too.

I wonder if/how GitHub will respond. I strongly prefer their UI and already have a paid plan, but I find myself shuffling repos within the confines of that plan rather than stomaching the (admittedly not very big) upgrade cost since many of the projects aren't super important. I understand why they do it, but I just don't like that they place an arbitrary restriction on the number of private repos.

Re: Bitbucket now rocks Git

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Post by ollysb » Mon, Oct 03, 2011, 4:30 PM UTC

Free unlimited private repos for up to 5 users; with competition like that maybe we'll see github improve it's pricing.