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Google has quietly launched a GitHub competitor

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Re: Google has quietly launched a GitHub competitor

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Post by icefox »

stock_toaster wrote: post #11

So 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.

After just wasting the last three nights migrating my old project (code was on GitHub, but the rest wasn't) off of Google code the chance of me putting code on a Google hosting service any time soon is pretty much zero.

About once a year for the last several years I have spent a few hours/days migrating stuff off of Google because the project is being shut down. Maybe they are just cleaning house from the mass of project in 2005-2010, but the constant reminder that the stuff I create is in danger if it lives on Google's servers is probably not the lesson they want to be teaching me.

Re: Google has quietly launched a GitHub competitor

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Post by icefox »

Kudos wrote: post #86
stock_toaster wrote: post #11

So 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.

Google code was project hosting, not just source hosting. This clickbait article is talking about a Google product that just does source hosting and is a part of the overall Google public cloud product strategy.

Google code did source hosting and was one of the primary features.

Re: Google has quietly launched a GitHub competitor

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Post by fixxer »

Github really owns the "organization aspect".

For my personal projects, I'm fine with my own git server on a cheap vm, but for work I've been really happy with Github's issue tracker and org membership administration (with which we use OAUTH heavily for internal tools, several of which queue background computation). Github issues are much easier for tracking job submissions from analysts than integrating with the company email, and developers prefer it.

I looked at GitLab a year ago. I liked it, but it was a little funky (avatars weren't working; obviously not mission critical, but little shit like that erodes confidence -- either support a feature or don't, but never half ass it because I'm not going to admin over a server when I've got a chorus analysts bitching about it being hacky). GitLab people: this was a digitalocean prepared image version of GitLab, in case you're listening.

Version control is really the most minor and easy to replicate part of Github's value proposition.

Re: Google has quietly launched a GitHub competitor

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Post by jokoon »

mineo wrote: post #79
jokoon wrote: post #41

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.

Fun fact: google code now has a " We have some known issues with hg repositories. " banner up since a few days ago.

Well I had this issue with mercurial 2 years go.

Re: Google has quietly launched a GitHub competitor

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Post by csells »

davidbanham wrote: post #29

> It can serve as a “remote” for Git repositories sitting elsewhere on the Internet or locally. That's not a feature of this product, it's just how git works.

Of course, we're pretty proud of our git support. We also support "connected repos" where we keep a repo in Cloud Source Repositories in sync with a repo you specify on GitHub or BitBucket; if you make a change on GH or BB, it's reflected into GCSR and vice versa. The idea is that you should be able to integrate with the features we're building on top of GCSR without making you move away from GH or BB. Useful?

Chris Sells PM, Google Cloud Platform

Re: Google has quietly launched a GitHub competitor

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Post by csells »

10098 wrote: post #28

It looks more like a beginning of an online IDE than a direct github competitor. It's just convenient if you're already using Google's cloud services.

I'm curious what kinds of additional features you'd be interested in here. In these comments so far I've heard code review, access control and online IDE. Would any of those be useful? What else would be useful?

Chris Sells PM, Google Cloud Platform

Re: Google has quietly launched a GitHub competitor

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Post by csells »

bsimpson wrote: post #83

500 MB lifetime storage doesn't seem like a whole lot.

To be clear, this is the current limit in beta and it's per repo, so if you have multiple cloud projects, you get multiple repos. We're thinking about adding support for multiple repos per project in the future. Would that be useful?

Also, and we're planning on upping the limit once we reach GA. What do you think a reasonable limit should be for a git repo? Our goal is to strike the right balance between usefulness and abuse.

Chris Sells PM, Google Cloud Platform

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