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Introducing the Redesigned Bitbucket

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Re: Introducing the Redesigned Bitbucket

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post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you mean that you wish they followed the fad of unreadable light grey on white text? No thanks. ;)

I just think the chosen background colour is a little too dark. Something about the colour (#F5F5F5?) is off to me.

Oh, well, that's very close to white. 96% white as a matter of fact, after checking in gimp. It needs to be at least a few percent to be noticeable as different by they eye.

Perhaps you should up the brightness on your monitor?

Re: Introducing the Redesigned Bitbucket

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post #56
post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you tried hg-git? I've been using it as my sole way of interacting (well, other than the web interface) with GitHub and I haven't run into any showstoppers.

I tried it and it blew up, complaining about "bookmarks." Couldn't commit and/or push, never figured it out.

I'm guessing it wanted you to enable the "bookmarks" extension: I believe hg-git maps git branches to hg bookmarks.

edit: the "installing" section of http://hg-git.github.com/ confirms it.

Re: Introducing the Redesigned Bitbucket

#63
post #3

I know its not the elephant in the managed source code hosting space, but I like BitBucket better then Github. I like the option to use Mercerial for projects and I like the way they ask me to pay for things ( pay for private shared repositories ).

    I like BitBucket better then Github.
That should be than. Then is an order of operations type deal, eg:

    I read the new BitBucket blog post and *then* I signed up
whereas than is things like greater than, less than, it's for comparisons.

http://www.elearnenglishlanguage.com/difficulties/thanthen.h...

Re: Introducing the Redesigned Bitbucket

#64

The redesigned commits view is 100 times better than Github's ever was. http://cl.ly/image/300S2R3q2x0N So much more info, and even a graph like in gitx.

...they didn't change/redesign anything on the commit view. The commit page on Bitbucket has always always looked that for as long as I can remember (been using it for a year or two now).

Also, I recall having the ability to diff. files before the new upgrade as well, although not side-by-side as they mention in the linked article.

Re: Introducing the Redesigned Bitbucket

#65
post #8

For a while I was a bit worried that GitHub had just ran away with the prize and no one else was bothering. It is pretty obvious that Google isn't interested in improving Google Code and that Sourceforge hasn't aged a day (that's not really fair, but it feels like it). I think there is still a chance for BitBucket to make a splash, but I think its going to be hard to win anymore. That's fine, 2nd place makes a lot of…

Bitbucket had a pretty easy time of winning my business: free private repositories for small teams is a great way to draw people in.

I like Bitbucket because they support both Mercurial and Git. They also acquired SourceTree (probably the best version control app on the Mac), employed the main developer and made the app free.

Re: Introducing the Redesigned Bitbucket

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Surprised to not see GitLab mentioned here. GitLab is FOSS and already has almost all of these features, allowing me to host multiple private repos on a single cheap VPS. That is exactly why I chose it over Bitbucket or Github. If Bitbucket wants to stay competitive, I think this is the least they can do -- unfortunately I don't see any innovation that puts them ahead of the other players in the market.

That appears to be a pretty blatant clone of GitHub...

Exactly my point -- these 'new' Bitbucket features are a blatant clone of Github as well. I was expecting more from all the fanfare.

For instance, users are clamoring to be able to link external issue trackers of their choice (which can be done simply by URL). I think the first host to supply that feature will have a step up.

Re: Introducing the Redesigned Bitbucket

#67

Surprised to not see GitLab mentioned here. GitLab is FOSS and already has almost all of these features, allowing me to host multiple private repos on a single cheap VPS. That is exactly why I chose it over Bitbucket or Github. If Bitbucket wants to stay competitive, I think this is the least they can do -- unfortunately I don't see any innovation that puts them ahead of the other players in the market.

That appears to be a pretty blatant clone of GitHub...

You say that like it's a bad thing?

Re: Introducing the Redesigned Bitbucket

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post #8

For a while I was a bit worried that GitHub had just ran away with the prize and no one else was bothering. It is pretty obvious that Google isn't interested in improving Google Code and that Sourceforge hasn't aged a day (that's not really fair, but it feels like it). I think there is still a chance for BitBucket to make a splash, but I think its going to be hard to win anymore. That's fine, 2nd place makes a lot of…

Bitbucket's self-hosted enterprise product Stash is priced aggressively. It's free for open source projects, non-profits and classrooms. For small teams (up to 10 users), it costs just $10/year, all in, and you get the source code.

http://www.atlassian.com/software/stash/pricing

Contrast with Github where the minimum purchase is 1 seat pack (up to 20 users), costing $5000/year, and you don't get any access to the the source code.

https://enterprise.github.com/pricing

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