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Bitbucket now rocks Git

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Post by snogglethorpe »

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…

But look at it this way: What would github gain by adding mercurial support?

They're insanely popular and becoming more so by the minute, and their biggest problems probably have to do with managing growth, not lack of users. With git itself becoming increasingly popular, there's absolutely no sense that git will be a limiting factor any time in the future.

They clearly do recognize the long-term advantages in improving the usability of git, and have been making moves in that direction (iphone client, increasing the functionality of their web interface, some interaction on the git dev list), but hg's purported UI advantages are tenuous at best, and it seems a much surer bet to consolidate their position and improve git instead of investing a lot of effort in supporting hg, which would only _dilute_ their position.

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Post by nirvdrum »

shazow wrote: post #173
nirvdrum wrote: post #169

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Having served as a TA, I can assure you some students will seek out anything tangentially related and make few if any modifications to the project. This isn't just a case of reused projects, too. A lot of times our assignments would be open-ended within a framework (e.g., create a game that uses the minimax algorithm). Things like that. And naturally they seek out anyone that had taken the class previously.

Re: Bitbucket now rocks Git

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Post by diramazioni »

petedoyle wrote: post #83
kellishaver wrote: post #77

Definitely going to give this a go. I have a lot of repos I'd like to keep private, but they're mostly personal projects and not worth paying more money for at GitHub. Quick question from someone new to Bitbucket: I have to authenticate every time I push to the repo. I've added my SSH key to the account, but I assume there's some additional configuration, such as how github has you add values for github.user and gith…

Make sure to use git@bitbucket.org:{username}/{reponame} instead of any https links bitbucket might give you. I was able to upload an existing repo I had by: 1) Uploading my SSH Public Key at https://bitbucket.org/account/ (i.e. the contents of ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub) 2) Create a blank repo at Bitbucket 3) Adding a remote (git remote add bitbucket git@bitbucket.org:{username}/{reponame}.git) 4) Pushing to bitbucket (git p…

ack thanks! I wonder why these info are not widely written around the web...
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