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Re: Bitbucket now rocks Git

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Post by skeletonjelly »

Legion wrote: post #16
johnthedebs wrote: post #9

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 s…

For me and where I work, GitHub's repo restrictions are the one and only cause of us self-hosting a Git server instead of using them. We have around a hundred small, low-traffic repos. Let's put it this way: * on GitHub, thanks to our repo count, we would be a $200/mo Platinum account * on Bitbucket, thanks to our user count, we would be a $0/mo Free account, although we might have to upgrade all the way up to a $10/…

> GitHub's repo restrictions

You're talking about the number limit?

Re: Bitbucket now rocks Git

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Post by darshan »

pyre wrote: post #129
grandalf wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

we'll see how GH responds in the face of competition like this. Now I no longer need to go beyond the $7/month github plan. I could see GH creating an "unlimited" account for $20/month that allows up to 3mb of files and unlimited repos.

The difference is that BitBucket pricing is based on the number of collaborators. Their pricing page makes it seem like you even have to pay to have more than 5 collaborators on a public repo, whereas with github you don't. If I'm reading it right, then Github is still really good for Open Source projects that intend to have more than a handful of collaborators. While BitBucket is a good place to stick your private r…

From https://bitbucket.org/plans :

What is a user?

Someone with read or write access to one of your private repositories.

Re: Bitbucket now rocks Git

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Post by fredoliveira »

skeletonjelly wrote: post #131
Legion wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For me and where I work, GitHub's repo restrictions are the one and only cause of us self-hosting a Git server instead of using them. We have around a hundred small, low-traffic repos. Let's put it this way: * on GitHub, thanks to our repo count, we would be a $200/mo Platinum account * on Bitbucket, thanks to our user count, we would be a $0/mo Free account, although we might have to upgrade all the way up to a $10/…

> GitHub's repo restrictions You're talking about the number limit?

thanks to our repo count

I guess this answers your question. I'm a happy Github customer myself (both personally as well as with my company), but it is interesting to see Bitbucket compete with them head-on. I can see quite a lot of small/medium companies move over.

Re: Bitbucket now rocks Git

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Post by daemin »

I still use an installation of Gitosis on my VPS to host my small private git projects. As long as you have a unix-ey box then it's very easy to set it up. Though I would definitely upload public projects to Github, for the community and visibility aspect of it.

Re: Bitbucket now rocks Git

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Post by pyre »

darshan wrote: post #132
pyre wrote: post #129

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The difference is that BitBucket pricing is based on the number of collaborators. Their pricing page makes it seem like you even have to pay to have more than 5 collaborators on a public repo, whereas with github you don't. If I'm reading it right, then Github is still really good for Open Source projects that intend to have more than a handful of collaborators. While BitBucket is a good place to stick your private r…

From https://bitbucket.org/plans : What is a user? Someone with read or write access to one of your private repositories.

Nevermind then. Apparently I'm blind.

Re: Bitbucket now rocks Git

#136

Post by flocial »

While this is great news, I really don't need an interface for sideprojects (yet). Codeplane's been great so far for private repos.

I just backed up my Github stuff using Github-backup and added them to Codeplane. Honestly surprised nobody challenged GitHub in pricing until recently. As far as social coding goes they are the Facebook of repo hosting (SourceForge is Friendster and Google Code is MySpace).

https://github.com/ddollar/github-backup

http://codeplane.com/

Re: Bitbucket now rocks Git

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Post by 3pt14159 »

bobbywilson0 wrote: post #82
johnthedebs wrote: post #9

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 s…

I have a similar sentiment. It doesn't feel right to pay for a private repo that you don't use any of the collaborative features. I wonder if it makes sense for github to have a 'lite' repo that is just straight up storage, no extra features. This would be valuable to me because even though I can set up a bitbucket account and get the free private repos, I just like having everything in one place. I feel like they co…

Why not just use Dropbox + Git? That's what I do.

Re: Bitbucket now rocks Git

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Post by bostonvaulter2 »

bad_user wrote: post #91
eropple wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am comfortable in Emacs and quite good with vim. Both do get in my way, which is why I moved to Sublime Text for text editing. I don't live in my text editor. I spend most of my time in IntelliJ or Visual Studio. The conventions of normal text editors are largely established, and so something that runs counter to those normal conventions--an emacs or a vim-- do get in my way. It is a mental gearshift to go "oh, I n…

I spend most of my time in IntelliJ or Visual Studio. It's understandable then why you don't like Vim/Emacs. Yes, working with IntelliJ/Eclipse/Visual Studio is painful for me too. True anecdote - whenever I'm working with Eclipse, I have a shortcut that opens the current file in Emacs for me. Vim and emacs are nonstandard at their own peril I spend my time with Unix-related tools mostly, and Emacs/Vim shortcuts are…

How did you make that shortcut in eclipse?

Re: Bitbucket now rocks Git

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Post by nknight »

chops wrote: post #124
vog wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> incomplete projects? It depends on what you mean by "incomplete". 50 lines of code which do almost nothing useful are probably not worth publishing. But why not publishing a half-complete project? Publishing may help you find contributors. And the early feedback helps you to decide if your project is worth more intense attention. > Messy/hacky experiments? If the code is not too bad, I publish even that stuff (as l…

On the other hand, I know about a Free Software clone of a game that used the original graphics and music. Not quite legal, but the game was very old and the right holders obviously didn't care. However, after publishing the project got a little fan base that eventually included graphic designers and musicians, who replaced the proprietary stuff step by step with their own creations. So the game changed from "legally…

Sounds an awful lot like he's talking about OpenTTD, a "clone" of Transport Tycoon Deluxe that has some "interesting" history even aside from the media assets.

Re: Bitbucket now rocks Git

#140

Post by zemanel »

Atlassian (which recently acquired Bitbucket) is well known forJira/Confluence.

Could it be that if they might use Bitbucket as an entry point to their products? Perhaps with more integration.

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