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Re: Bitbucket now rocks Git

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Post by ergo14 »

farkas wrote: post #29
ergo14 wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a power grab, and we benefit from it. There is no need for any DVCS to "win". Now you can use whatever you want without restrictions, why force others to use what you use?

(disclaimer - I'm the CEO of Atlassian) Developers are religious. Whether it is vi vs emacs, or IDEA vs Eclipse or Mac vs Linux. In September we had a huge debate internally (hundreds of comments long) on functional vs non-functional programming. We know that no-one wins in these religious debates. We've found that developers are equally religious regarding their DVCS. Most frequently it is whatever DVCS you started…

Yeah, I'm a happy developer that uses both bitbucket and github - I'd just wish that ui for bb gets nicer and more friendly - and it will be perfect tool for me.

Re: Bitbucket now rocks Git

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Post by ashleyw »

tomblomfield wrote: post #20

I looked at this and thought "this is like Github, but not as good" If you're even semi-serious about development, paying $7/month is nothing for the value they provide.

Any semi-serious developer is going to use up the 5 private repos really quickly. 20 repos ($22/mo) is easily achievable for anyone who likes side-projects, and after that, larger plans are only "available on request".

I wouldn't expect GitHub to compete directly with BitBucket's pricing, but doubling the amount of private repos allowed wouldn't hurt.

Re: Bitbucket now rocks Git

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Post by eropple »

nessus42 wrote: post #26
rmc wrote: post #7

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.

> Yes. In fact Github implemented the Git plugin for Mercurial that lets you use Github (or any Git repository) with Mercurial as your client rather than Git. I guess this shows which DVCS is winning?

As noted upthread, hg-git is a very poor facade.

The problem I have with git isn't in its syntax. It's in more central decisions with which I disagree fairly strenuously (I am very strongly in favor of indelible history, for example).

Re: Bitbucket now rocks Git

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Post by drivebyacct2 »

tomblomfield wrote: post #20

I looked at this and thought "this is like Github, but not as good" If you're even semi-serious about development, paying $7/month is nothing for the value they provide.

I'm not sure why my ability to run my own Git server or use a provided hosted Git solution regardless of it's name affects the seriousness of my programming ability.

Re: Bitbucket now rocks Git

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Post by burgerbrain »

eropple wrote: post #25
LeafStorm wrote: post #4

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 o…

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. This sums up my feelings exactly. I'm emphatically not a fan of the Github guys…

"I'm emphatically not a fan of the Github guys (who seem rather unprofessional)"

How so? They're quite snappy with the support in my experience, and handled the firesheep situation much better than most companies.

Re: Bitbucket now rocks Git

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Post by akx »

bitsweet wrote: post #23
krobertson wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I doubt it. There is no need for them to, they aren't hurting or struggling. Running businesses with "lets offer more for free" and "ohh crap, they offer more for free, lets lower our price" is a race to the bottom. It is actually moves like these that make me question Bitbucket more. How viable is the service long term? Do I want to trust all my own code to them?

Bitbucket is funded by Atlassian - their other products have a huge install base at enterprises across the world. Atlassian could probably run Bitbucket at a loss as marketing if they wanted to

And if my hunch is right, that's what they do right now.

Re: Bitbucket now rocks Git

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Post by tyler_ball »

This is great news and I hope it helps do all that others are saying, like improve pricing.

I've had a Bitbucket account for a while and never used it, mainly because I'm more comfortable with git. But after poking around Bitbucket and importing some repos I'm seeing that you really get what you pay for.

GitHub completely trounces Bitbucket with their ease of use and toolset. I hope Bitbucket can step it up.

Re: Bitbucket now rocks Git

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Post by calloc »

heisenmink wrote: post #6

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.

Are you a student? Because that is the only way that I know you can get a free private repo on Github.

Re: Bitbucket now rocks Git

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Post by pixeloution »

farkas wrote: post #29
ergo14 wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a power grab, and we benefit from it. There is no need for any DVCS to "win". Now you can use whatever you want without restrictions, why force others to use what you use?

(disclaimer - I'm the CEO of Atlassian) Developers are religious. Whether it is vi vs emacs, or IDEA vs Eclipse or Mac vs Linux. In September we had a huge debate internally (hundreds of comments long) on functional vs non-functional programming. We know that no-one wins in these religious debates. We've found that developers are equally religious regarding their DVCS. Most frequently it is whatever DVCS you started…

If we had to re-make the decision of what remote DVCS host to use, I'd certainly look strongly at bitbucket. We have only a small handful of developers, but many repositories (60+) all getting low traffic.

We've used both Github and Beanstalkapp.com and both charge based on total repos rather then disk space or developers which, frankly, drives me a bit insane. I think both have better features then bitbucket (as far as I am aware) and better UI's (subjective) but my 60 small repos run me $100/month at beanstalk - not sure what it would run @ github.

I can't find any disk usage limits @ BB's site, which makes me wonder if there are hidden caps. If BB ever struck me as being as slick as github, I'd move our business in a second, even if the cost was higher then it is now ($10 a month? Really?!).

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