Google abandoned its previous Github comptetitor. Unlikely many outside of the Go-phers will use the new one.
Google has quietly launched a GitHub competitor
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Re: Google has quietly launched a GitHub competitor
#122Off topic, but the image in the article is of a building in Santa Monica that Google moved out of atleast 2 years ago.
Ha! thanks... I was wondering about that :-)
Re: Google has quietly launched a GitHub competitor
#123Google had googlecode way before github. They just didn't do much with it.
Re: Google has quietly launched a GitHub competitor
#124Sites like GitHub thrive on the community they engender. Google no doubt has the tech chops to compete with anybody on a pure technical basis, but community is not their forte. Witness Google Plus.
Re: Google has quietly launched a GitHub competitor
#125Can't wait to see how long it takes them to get rid of this one like they did with Google Code
It's integrated directly into the cloud product. Since its purpose is not to host your code, but make your code visible to the cloud product itself, expect it to live as long as the cloud product.
... and since the cloud product actually offers a direct way for Google to generate revenue from the service, I'd assume it'd live for awhile. ;)
Re: Google has quietly launched a GitHub competitor
#126Every IaaS provider (Google, Amazon, Azure) has added a code hosting service or will do so in the future. Having your code hosted here will increase lock-in which is the best way for the IaaS provider to increase margins in the future. However, code hosting is not the essence of that GitHub, BitBucket and we at GitLab offer. The essence is code collaboration: mentioning people, doing a code review, activity streams,…
on a more serious note, what will your new logo look like?
Re: Google has quietly launched a GitHub competitor
#127So 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.
From the repository feature's docs (https://cloud.google.com/tools/cloud-repositories/docs/):
"Using Cloud Source Repositories is easy if you are familiar with Git. For example, you can add a Cloud Source Repository to a local Git repository as a remote, or you can connect it to a hosted repository on GitHub or Bitbucket"
If the goal is lock-in, they're doing it wrong.
Re: Google has quietly launched a GitHub competitor
#128Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't understand the reasoning here, or you would benefit from dependent types. I am /also/ absolutely sure that /everything/ will shut down in X(company) years.
GitHub will not shutdown in X years. That's their main business. While Google has the tendency to shutdown products after their beta phase. From Google POV that's a side project to their ad biz.
Main businesses do fail (witness poor, beleaguered SourceForge). Meanwhile, Google's cloud ecosystem is a revenue-generator for the company; that does decrease the odds that it'll have the plug pulled.
I wonder how many people shy away from AWS on the thought that web services aren't Amazon's core business model.
Re: Google has quietly launched a GitHub competitor
#129The 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.
To be honest, I only use github because everyone else does and because it's almost expected I should to. And since I'm job hunting, it means I throw a few projects on to github as a portfolio. But for everything that I really care about, I still maintain private repos on my home server.
Why?
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#130Post Snowden I'm looking to move away from cloud services and not entangle myself further.
I see this sentiment quite often, and I'm not really sure how to respond to it (other than the snarky, obvious "Enjoy your cave").
Hacker News is a cloud service---we share comments on news stories in a collaborative fashion. I assume this means something closer to "I don't want my personal, sensitive data hosted by anybody and I'm willing to pay for the inefficiency and inconvenience of only being able to access it from a handful of nodes (or having to maintain my own hosting solution on my own hardware)" than the alternative interpretation "I'm a Luddite; down with the Internet?"