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Bitbucket passes one million users

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Re: Bitbucket passes one million users

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Post by cmelbye »

pbreit wrote: post #55
kleiba wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Honest question: why do you need a central repository (SVN style) if it's a private repo? I tend to develop my own projects mostly on two different machines, and the core code management and synchronization doesn't need anything but git itself. Is it so you can use bug trackers etc?

Hmmm..how does synchronization work without a server or direct connection?

There's obviously a direct connection between the machines. Synchronization works exactly as it does when you synchronize with GitHub. It's just SSH.

Re: Bitbucket passes one million users

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Post by Osiris »

kleiba wrote: post #47
RivieraKid wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Me too. Public repos github, private bitbucket.

Honest question: why do you need a central repository (SVN style) if it's a private repo? I tend to develop my own projects mostly on two different machines, and the core code management and synchronization doesn't need anything but git itself. Is it so you can use bug trackers etc?

I use Bitbucket with private repos for my code and websites. It makes it easier for me to use any of my computers or laptops to work on the same code and it also makes it easier to deploy to my webserver. When I want to deploy, I just do a git pull on the master branch. Easier than uploading files with SSH and it makes it a lot easier to rollback the server if needed.

Re: Bitbucket passes one million users

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Post by Osiris »

speeder wrote: post #9

Kidoteca uses Bitbucket, because for us our GIT serving is free :) Also I use their SourceTree GUI GIT tool, it is really nice too. Now this is looking like a ad for Atlassian, I should charge them :P

SourceTree is great and it has both a Mac and Windows version which makes it easy for me to switch between my Mac and other PCs around the house.

Re: Bitbucket passes one million users

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Post by JoshTriplett »

georgemcbay wrote: post #40
vyrotek wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

JIRA is pretty sweet to keep things in order. Really? I use and love BitBucket, but the last 2 places I worked at used JIRA and it was the worst project management tool I've ever used. I'm sure someone will say they didn't configure it right or educate the devs or something. Seriously though, it was pushed down from upper management in both cases and it was a terrible experience. Then they thought Greenhopper would f…

You must have never used Rally? Because while I'm not a huge fan of JIRA (I've only used it in the past year so I don't know what it was like 4 years ago), I've unfortunately seen much worse.

Funny, I've had the opposite experience; Rally has been mostly a joy to use, especially by comparison to Jira and Greenhopper.

Re: Bitbucket passes one million users

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Post by fletchowns »

rrrhys wrote: post #57
dimascyriaco wrote: post #13

I use Bitbucket at work. And it stinks compared to Github.

I don't particularly see the difference and switch between both pretty much daily - granted I don't take advantage of Github social features really.

If you don't take advantage of the Github social features, which is essentially what Github is all about, I don't think your opinion on the matter is worth sharing with everybody, no offense intended.

Re: Bitbucket passes one million users

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Post by ngoldbaum »

VMG wrote: post #22
prima-facie wrote: post #21

Mercurial is a better tool than Git in almost every aspect. It's easy to learn and gets out of your way. I chose it over git a few years ago and sticked with it ever since and used Bitbucket to host most of my stuff. You don't get the community that Github has, but the hosting is great.

> Mercurial is a better tool than Git in almost every aspect. No need to proclaim personal tastes as absolute truths around here. In any case, Bitbucket has complete git support.

Right, but github only allows, well, git repositories. If they added hg support I'd have a strong reason to think about putting repositories on my github account.

Re: Bitbucket passes one million users

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Post by jbarham »

It's worth noting that GitHub charges per repo whereas Bitbucket charges per user. So GitHub might make sense for product businesses where there are only a handful of repos, but Bitbucket is much more cost effective in an agency environment where you might have a repo per client or even per project.

Re: Bitbucket passes one million users

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Post by gldnspud »

An interesting difference I've noticed about Bitbucket vs Github: While Github has had a "deploy key" feature for quite a while, and Bitbucket only added such a feature just under a year ago, I think Bitbucket's version is a much better fit for what deploy keys are usually used for.

With Github, a deploy key has read-write access to repos, and each key can only be attached to a single repo.

However, with Bitbucket, a deploy key has read-only access to repos, and each key can be attached to more than one repo.

Re: Bitbucket passes one million users

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Post by pwang »

jlgreco wrote: post #46
prima-facie wrote: post #21

Mercurial is a better tool than Git in almost every aspect. It's easy to learn and gets out of your way. I chose it over git a few years ago and sticked with it ever since and used Bitbucket to host most of my stuff. You don't get the community that Github has, but the hosting is great.

I feel like I am taking crazy pills whenever somebody says that mercurial is simpler than git. Mercurial's per-file revlog and structured .hg/store/data is way weirder / more complex than git's SHA-addressed DAG with minimal/orthogonal object types. The only real blemish on git is that lightweight tags should not exist.

As someone once commented, git is a great library for building a VCS system. Great design.

The tooling around it? Not so much. http://stevelosh.com/blog/2013/04/git-koans/

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