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I wonder how many users GitHub has.
I wonder how many users are active on BB and GH though. In my case, I have an account for both but never use BB.
[1] https://github.com/about/press [2] https://github.com/blog/952-1-million-user-party-mon-oct-17-...
Github has the social aspects nailed down, but for small teams or personal projects, I don't hesitate to use bitbucket. Particularly now that you can use HipChat for free on small teams, hosting with bitbucket and managing your project exclusively through Atlassian is fantastic. I like issue management in bitbucket much more than github, as well (personal opinion, no great foundation here).
Also, with the startup edition you get Fogbugz, which is pretty decent - and certainly lightyears ahead of github issues.
Note: I have no relationship with FogCreek, but I've added a few personal projects there and so far I have no complaints.
The people in the comment are the first ACTUAL people I've met that use bitbucket >_>
I found it pretty popular in parts of the python community. And I guess it's used for a lot of private repositories.
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Offsite data backup of the entire repository for free.
I see. I suppose that makes sense if you mostly work on a single machine. (Since I usually oscillate between two machines I never think about backing up in addition to the normal work-flow.)
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I wouldn't be surprised if this has a lot to do with the latest growth. I've taken one or two Coursera courses (eg. [1]) where Bitbucket was specifically recommended for the private repositories. It would be a hassle to get counted as a student by Github without an edu email, and it would be too much for them to individually approve tens of thousands of people. [1] http://www.coursera.org/course/scicomp
I know Bitbucket maintain a list of student Emails, I imagine Github do the same. They send a confirmation Email, you confirm, you get upgraded - all automatic. No reason to manually approve that. Bitbucket give students unlimited collaborators, but you probably don't need that for Coursera courses anyway.
Github will approve people for using a student email address even if their school doesn't give them an email account, but it happens on a case by case basis, with requirements such as requesting that you forward a scanned copy of your student ID.
The difference is that Bitbucket does not ask you to be a student for the free account, so there is no process to prove that you are a student. Github has many advantages, but hassle-free, free private repositories is not one of them.
What I was saying is that with the increase in students who are encouraged to use remote version control who may not have a student email account, or even a student ID, has likely contributed to the increase in users on Bitbucket. It is worth noting that some of these courses have more than 100,000 people sign up. Even if only a small fraction finish the courses, a small fraction use version control, and many are smaller, there have already been dozens of these courses conducted in the last year on Coursera, Udacity, and EdX.
Bitbucket is great but their Atlassian SourceTree software cannot be use anymore. It used to be fine couple versions ago, now the newest update does not even let you run it. I had to re-install couple times and nothing; only removing registries help. Also, some features are being taken away for no reason (like ability to remember to which branch you pushing, etc you have to re-check those again and again at each push…
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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?
Offsite data backup of the entire repository for free.
Just opened a new account at Bitbucket and am going to start doing this.
Public repos on Github, Private @ Bitbucket. This is brilliant.
If you're wondering how they can offer free private repositories (awesome!), it's probably because they also offer a ton of other tightly integrated services such as Crucible, JIRA, etc. JIRA is pretty sweet to keep things in order.