Earlier quoted context omitted.
This x100. I love GitHub's user interface but as a poor student couldn't justify them for my private projects (until I found their free student plan), so I used BitBucket. BitBucket is very good from a pricing and support point of view (and I actually preferred Mercurial before I learnt Git properly) but it's not nearly as polished as GitHub - one thing that springs to mind (it might have been fixed) was it trying to…
Where can I find out about the student plan?
Bitbucket now rocks Git
171–180 of 183 posts
Re: Bitbucket now rocks Git
#172This has probably been asked before, but is Bitbucket really unlimited? If I encrypt my drive, convert it to ASCII, and upload it, will they host it?
No it is not considered fair use[1] from the CEO of Atlassian[2].
[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3068576
[2] Unconfirmed by me. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3067107
Re: Bitbucket now rocks Git
#173Earlier quoted context omitted.
As a student I make regular use of private repos because publishing answers to marked coursework is frowned upon.
This is largely true when you graduate as well. I still have all my grad coursework in git and find it useful to reference, but don't want to make public due to academic dishonesty.
I'd love to hear more about this academic dishonesty. I've been disconnected from academia for a long time.
For me, I specifically make a lot of my work public to avoid someone else claiming sole invention rights--as I have reasonable public proof of prior art. Though to this day this has never happened, and people have always given my projects more than appropriate credit without even having to ask.
Re: Bitbucket now rocks Git
#174I just signed up for a free account and already made 6 private git repos. Nice.
I must say that I wish there was a middle road between bitbucket and github pricing: I like to pay enough money to to be fair. I will eventually have about 20 small repos, most of which I won't use very often. Solo developer.
It would not cost much at all to support a user such as myself, so if the cost were about $5/month that would be better than free. That said, it is so easy to move git hosting back to one of my EC2s, that if they decide to not provide this service in the future it is only a small hassle.
Re: Bitbucket now rocks Git
#175Earlier quoted context omitted.
I do think that user-friendliness must be a primary goal for a VCS, because I have to get people who aren't hardcore, balls-to-the-wall programmers to use it if I need to store their data in my tree. Hg can be picked up by those folks in short order and requires no "grokking" beyond what you can read on Spolsky's HG Init in half an hour minutes. (I have in the past worked with designers who were wholly out of their e…
On text editors -- picking up Emacs was one of the hardest thing I ever did, as I had to learn new shortcuts, I had to learn to rely on the keyboard-only and I also had to learn some ELisp just to be able to configure it. Because Emacs has some problems (it is hard to create new syntax-highlighting definitions, plugins break all the time, ELPA for package management is useless), I did try both Textmate and Sublime Te…
The analogy to text editors is bad though, since everyone can choose the UI they like for text editing, whereas for source control the choice of UIs is much reduced.
In other words, I can choose Vim/Emacs, slog away and get proficient, and someone else can read my code with notepad. With VCS, I'm asking casual and hardcore users to use the same UI, so it better appeal to both.
Re: Bitbucket now rocks Git
#176Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes please - small things like the branches drop down are not very intuitive. I think the competitive advantage for Bitbucket will come from super-enhancing features like the issue tracker. Today, I still have to run Redmine inspite of having Github issues. Give me an industrial quality issue tracker (hooks, assignee features, charting, roles and permissions). Basically just pull Bugzilla into Bitbucket. Now, that wo…
Please, NO. I would cringe at a full version of Jira being included, too. If I want one of those, I will install one of them. I do think BB's issues are under-powered (and it is a major problem), but I'd much rather have a clean, clear, well-designed 20% of Jira.
In BB's defense, GH's issue system is horribly underpowered too.
Re: Bitbucket now rocks Git
#177I signed up for Bitbucket the instant they had git availability. I only started using Git regularly for new/small projects a month ago, after quite happily using svn for web projects.
Bitbucket gets what I need. I love the social coding of GitHub and will continue to participate in it. But I can't put my own projects there. There's too many small, private repos that I can't keep paying for.
Bitbucket's approach is good for me. I'd rather pay for storage/users than per repo. If Github is really about promoting source code control, it shouldn't be a barrier for private / personal projects. For now, bitbucket solves this. I hope Github comes around.
Until then, I'm cancelling my $7 github account and giving Bitbucket $10/month even though I'm only using 2 users. They're doing me a real service and favor.
Re: Bitbucket now rocks Git
#178While 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://gith…
[deleted]
Re: Bitbucket now rocks Git
#179Bitbucket (a popular mercurial hosting site) has added git support. Has any popular git hosting site added mercurial support? This shows which DVCS is winning.
Beanstalk (http://beanstalkapp.com) has added Mercurial to our Git and SVN support - it's in private beta right now, but you can email me alex@wildbit.com if you're interested in being added.
Re: Bitbucket now rocks Git
#180Earlier quoted context omitted.
This x100. I love GitHub's user interface but as a poor student couldn't justify them for my private projects (until I found their free student plan), so I used BitBucket. BitBucket is very good from a pricing and support point of view (and I actually preferred Mercurial before I learnt Git properly) but it's not nearly as polished as GitHub - one thing that springs to mind (it might have been fixed) was it trying to…
Where can I find out about the student plan?
I only found it by Googling in desperation; they don't exactly advertise it (which I guess is fair enough).