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Re: Free private Github repos for students and edu people

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Post by rbsn »

Legion wrote: post #114
rdegges wrote: post #57

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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 f…

I do agree that by charging by repository count they are losing a large number of customers who run small web design and development shops. If GitHub price per person rather than per repository, they would gain so many more paid for customers.

Re: Free private Github repos for students and edu people

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Post by rbsn »

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?

I have a student account on GitHub and I use BitBucket for private repositories with my employer. I prefer the GitHub website so much more. Better design, better graphs, you can get an overview of who in your team has committed in a time period (Pulse), better README, better commit history layout, more service hooks (no Trello support for BitBucket is annoying considering we use Trello for organizing and managing our projects), to mention a few.

Re: Free private Github repos for students and edu people

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Post by rbsn »

thejosh wrote: post #71
rdegges wrote: post #57

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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).

Github is great for everyone but agencies who have a high number of repositories. Bitbucket is great for us as it's per user pricing instead of per repository pricing that Github has. Github is fantastic for opensource projects or people with a low number of repositories - It's handy if you only plan on having a couple of repositories (if you are a SaaS etc).

"Github is great for everyone but agencies who have a high number of repositories."

This is the single reason we cannot use GitHub, it would cost £1000s.

Re: Free private Github repos for students and edu people

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Post by rbsn »

reledi wrote: post #115
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.

I agree with the enjoyment factor. I hate using BitBucket, I can't quite explain why. It feels neglected and the website layout hasn't been given much thought.

Re: Free private Github repos for students and edu people

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Post by rschmitty »

qohen wrote: post #137
tomjen3 wrote: post #111

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

TIL BitBucket is run by Atlassian (i.e. the JIRA people). Links to save you time, if you're interested: https://bitbucket.org/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitbucket

For Open Source projects Github > * You just can't beat the tremendous community.

However when things need to be private... Atlassian suite > Github suite

JIRA is so much more powerful than Github issues/wiki. And it is significantly cheaper to boot.

Re: Free private Github repos for students and edu people

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Post by merijnv »

reledi wrote: post #119
Achshar wrote: post #82

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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...

> you can use SVN with GitHub if you really want to.

How is that remotely relevant? Mercurial is a great DVCS with a user experience that is (in my opinion) far superior to git. SVN on the other hand is...I don't think I need to rehash this tired old DVCS vs SVN argument.

I would love hg support on github, but until that time will use bitbucket for my own projects, perhaps occasionally syncing to GitHub using hg-git.

Re: Free private Github repos for students and edu people

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Post by buttscicles »

why-el wrote: post #133
jmhain wrote: post #100

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I'm a student. I've filled it out at least three times in the past and never gotten anything.

Me too. Are you from outside the US? That might be it, as my university does not use a .edu.

I've successfully used it with an *.ac.uk address

Re: Free private Github repos for students and edu people

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Post by _kushagra »

johndbritton wrote: post #149
_kushagra wrote: post #148

I applied two times and both times my application got rejected. My college doesn't provide any .edu or other email ids to its students so I guess this isn't for me.

Send an email to support@github.com and I'll take care of it.

I just applied third time with scanned photos of my college ID. I'll send the email if it gets rejected too. Thanks

Edit: They accepted it this time! Thanks :D

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