Anecdote: I remember using mercurial on google code, at some point it did not work, a push was just timing out for some reason. I switched to bitbutcket and then used github. Google answered the issue, but I already made the switch, and I don't even know if they fixed it.
Google has quietly launched a GitHub competitor
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Re: Google has quietly launched a GitHub competitor
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes. Google now try to take it all like the old Microsoft. No wonder they get bad response for each new product like that people simply don't trust them anymore.
I pretty much trust Google, Apple, Amazon etc. to safeguard my data better than others. What do you mean? Don't you use gmail, publish to the app store, and host with AWS? Do you use Stripe for payments? Google Maps? Facebook login? You are trusting these companies with a great deal.
> I pretty much trust Google, Apple, Amazon etc. to safeguard my data better than others.
Why?
> Don't you use gmail, publish to the app store, and host with AWS? Do you use Stripe for payments? Google Maps? Facebook login? You are trusting these companies with a great deal.
Believe it or not, most people do not do all of these things. Many do none.
Re: Google has quietly launched a GitHub competitor
#43So they killed Google code to... launch another code hosting thing? Does Google have too many siloed product managers? Maybe you can only advance up the corporate ladder by releasing new products, and fuck all if they get killed later, because you got your promotion? No clue what the cause. Just seems weird looking on from the sidelines.
A while ago I remember hearing in some podcast from googler that they internally have separate source code management system (not related to Google Code). I wouldn't be surprised it he was talking about this one and they finally decided to make it public. Killing Google Code was probably just because not many people used it (externally or internally).
Re: Google has quietly launched a GitHub competitor
#44Calling a source code repo service a competitor to GitHub is like calling a online book store a competitor to Amazon. Hint: source code is not GitHub's value, just like books where not Amazon's. GitHubs true value is something Google is profoundly bad at.
What is gtihub's true value?
Re: Google has quietly launched a GitHub competitor
#45Hasn't Google been moving code to GitHub itself?
Re: Google has quietly launched a GitHub competitor
#46Hasn't Google been moving code to GitHub itself?
Re: Google has quietly launched a GitHub competitor
#47The reason people use GitHub is everything around the git hosting: the web interface, the account system, pull requests and issues, forking, comments, wikis, Pages, even the desktop and mobile apps. Hosting git repositories is straightforward, by design. This article is only slightly more sensible than claiming that S3 is a GitHub competitor because you can git clone over HTTP.
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Re: Google has quietly launched a GitHub competitor
#48So interesting. This race for features between the cloud vendors feels crazy to me, but totally makes sense from a business perspective. Classic attempt at locking you in to a single platform.
> Classic attempt at locking you in to a single platform.
Isn't that what happens immediately after one places their artifacts into "the cloud"?
Re: Google has quietly launched a GitHub competitor
#49I would've liked it better, if it also had auto-deploy to gce, and auto load-balancing, scaling, health-checks and service discovery.
Re: Google has quietly launched a GitHub competitor
#50The reason people use GitHub is everything around the git hosting: the web interface, the account system, pull requests and issues, forking, comments, wikis, Pages, even the desktop and mobile apps. Hosting git repositories is straightforward, by design. This article is only slightly more sensible than claiming that S3 is a GitHub competitor because you can git clone over HTTP.
Lately, the Web UI has been sucky, I relied on my username button quite a bit, now I have to perform two steps to go to my user page