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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 snarfy »

icefox wrote: post #101
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 pro…

This is exactly why I won't use anything they make anymore. I cannot trust it will be around two years from now.

Re: Google has quietly launched a GitHub competitor

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Post by Zhenya »

marcinkuzminski wrote: post #57
guelo wrote: post #18

My team has just started looking for a github replacement because the code review workflow is just not working for us, we need something with more structure. I think there's plenty of space for feature and price competition, especially for private repos where github's social network effects don't matter as much.

Maybe you should look at RhodeCode, it has several different workflows for code-review. From very simple like just voting on each individual commit, to a fully blown server side mergable workflow that includes, voting, checks by CI, and integration to external services. We did a blog about it recently on how we use it internally: https://rhodecode.com/blog/increased-automation-at-rhodecode... Displaimer: i'm the CTO…

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Re: Google has quietly launched a GitHub competitor

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Post by [deleted] »

csells wrote: post #109
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 a…

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Re: Google has quietly launched a GitHub competitor

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Post by sytse »

hamitron wrote: post #126
sytse wrote: post #91

Every 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?

Thanks for asking, see https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/gitlab-artwork/blob/master/new...

Re: Google has quietly launched a GitHub competitor

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Post by icefox »

skj wrote: post #113
icefox wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Source hosting is the only feature of GCP source hosting. It's literally just a way to get your code into the platform, nothing more.

https://cloud.google.com/tools/cloud-repositories/

A number of features are listed, 'Source Code Editor' seems to be the other big one, the rest might fall into the other cloud offerings.

Re: Google has quietly launched a GitHub competitor

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Post by laumars »

xiaoma wrote: post #129
laumars wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Why...?

Sorry, you'll have to be more specific.

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