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Re: Free private Github repos for students and edu people

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Post by tomjen3 »

johndbritton wrote: post #14

I work at GitHub on all things related to education. I got a note that this was on HN, so I thought I'd drop by and offer to answer questions and provide some additional details. Details on the discount: * We're happy to provide students with GitHub Micro (5 private repositories) accounts for free. So long as you're a student, you're eligible. You can use the private repositories for anything you want. * We offer org…

Bitbucket has offered unlimited free private repositories for years, why should students go through the trouble of using github?

Re: Free private Github repos for students and edu people

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Post by carterschonwald »

tomjen3 wrote: post #111
johndbritton wrote: post #14

I work at GitHub on all things related to education. I got a note that this was on HN, so I thought I'd drop by and offer to answer questions and provide some additional details. Details on the discount: * We're happy to provide students with GitHub Micro (5 private repositories) accounts for free. So long as you're a student, you're eligible. You can use the private repositories for anything you want. * We offer org…

Bitbucket has offered unlimited free private repositories for years, why should students go through the trouble of using github?

THIS.

Bitbucket is free for personal use. Unlimited private repos. Edu accounts have unlimited collaborators... FOREVER.

and they're super responsive to support requests, support importing code from more sources, and support mercurial and git both.

Also the ticket trackers let you attach arbitrary files, not just those animated gifs :)

Re: Free private Github repos for students and edu people

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Post by andyhmltn »

tomjen3 wrote: post #111
johndbritton wrote: post #14

I work at GitHub on all things related to education. I got a note that this was on HN, so I thought I'd drop by and offer to answer questions and provide some additional details. Details on the discount: * We're happy to provide students with GitHub Micro (5 private repositories) accounts for free. So long as you're a student, you're eligible. You can use the private repositories for anything you want. * We offer org…

Bitbucket has offered unlimited free private repositories for years, why should students go through the trouble of using github?

But only 5 collaborators which isn't good when you have a class of 30-60!

Re: Free private Github repos for students and edu people

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Post by Legion »

rdegges wrote: post #57
AndyKelley wrote: post #55

I did this when I was a student, and I recently had to move over the private repos to bitbucket when it expired. Just stick to bitbucket for private repos.

GitHub is a pretty great service (IMO). Totally worth paying for. If cost is your number one driving force, then sure -- go with Bitbucket -- but I think GitHub provides a way better experience (for users and developers).

Charging by repository count, rather than some saner metric more indicative of actual usage (like number of users) is a deal breaker.

Got tired of waiting for Github to stop excluding my team because of the repo count nonsense, went to Bitbucket, never looked back.

Would gladly have paid Github a reasonable amount of money, but according to their silly metric, my little team required a Platinum account.

$20 a month for our sized team at Bitbucket and we have unlimited everything. For $25 a month at Github, we'd already be out of repositories just versioning our dotfiles.

Re: Free private Github repos for students and edu people

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Post by reledi »

wambotron wrote: post #77

I don't understand the fascination with github. Bitbucket gives you unlimited private repos for free, no special requirements. It has wikis, issue tracking, and contributors.

GitHub has a larger community and a much better user experience. I get a lot of enjoyment simply from using GitHub, but not from using BitBucket.

There's also less direct reasons, like GitHub Inc having a really open culture and GitHubbers are really awesome.

Re: Free private Github repos for students and edu people

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Post by reledi »

rdl wrote: post #74

Just out of curiosity, what happened to SourceForge? They were essentially the GitHub of the dotcom boom, and pretty awesome at the time, but really seem to have fallen off.

They're still around and active, just not in the spotlight as much. They're mostly used as a distributing system now. They're worth consideration if your projects host and distribute large binary files in addition to source archives.

Re: Free private Github repos for students and edu people

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Post by jlmendezbonini »

andyhmltn wrote: post #113
tomjen3 wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Bitbucket has offered unlimited free private repositories for years, why should students go through the trouble of using github?

But only 5 collaborators which isn't good when you have a class of 30-60!

Not true for academic licenses/accounts.

"These licences [academic] allow students and teachers to collaborate with an unlimited number of programmers"

[1]https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageI...

Re: Free private Github repos for students and edu people

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Post by iNeal »

johndbritton wrote: post #39
QuantumGuy wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you're start using a private repo for education now but go to grad school do those repos remain free?

So long as you're a student, you qualify. After you graduate you get to keep them until the two years expires.

How would you know one isn't a student anymore? I'm pretty sure students don't lose access to their .edu email after they graduate (with most schools, at least). Not that I would do that, but there are people who certainly would.

Re: Free private Github repos for students and edu people

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Post by reledi »

Achshar wrote: post #82
_lex wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is a bad idea b/c of sync issues. Just use bitbucket, which is a poor man's github.

How do you classify Bitbucket as poor man's github? It has almost all the same features, supports git and mercurial and unlimited private repos.

> supports git and mercurial

If you're implying that you're stuck with git if you use GitHub, you can use SVN with GitHub if you really want to.

https://github.com/blog/1178-collaborating-on-github-with-su...

Re: Free private Github repos for students and edu people

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Post by anxx »

johndbritton wrote: post #39
QuantumGuy wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you're start using a private repo for education now but go to grad school do those repos remain free?

So long as you're a student, you qualify. After you graduate you get to keep them until the two years expires.

replying to iNeal: really? My school turns my school.edu to alum.school.edu.
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