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Bitbucket passes one million users

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Re: Bitbucket passes one million users

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Post by Lazare »

kleiba wrote: post #47
RivieraKid wrote: post #35

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Me too. Public repos github, private bitbucket.

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?

Why not set up a private bitbucket repo, and just always push your code to bitbucket when you're done working, and pull when you start?

It's a free offsite backup, and if you ever need to add another machine (or developer) to the project, your code is already sitting there on bitbucket. And you never need to worry about firewalls, NAT, one of the machines being off, whatever, because bitbucket is (almost) always up and accessible. And if you forget to push after working, or if bitbucket is down, you can still fall back to your existing workflow.

In addition, if you're doing anything web based, sooner or later you'll need to deploy to a sever out on the internets. Being able to pull from bitbucket makes deployment really easy, again without tinkering with firewall ports or anything.

It's not so much a question of "need" it's "why not do this thing which has some benefits, and no real downside?"

Re: Bitbucket passes one million users

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Post by gcb0 »

gustavo_duarte wrote: post #113
outworlder wrote: post #103

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For personal projects or two person projects, Kiln is available for free. For larger teams, one of the advantages is that you can use Mercurial and Git interchangeably in the same project. 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…

I respectfully disagree regarding Fogbugz vs. GitHub issues. I used FogBugz for about 6 years in a major client project (a successful SaaS product). We used FogCreek's hosted solution and were pretty heavy users: different projects, milestones, feature requests, user communication, etc. However, we were unhappy with FogBugz. The UI always felt clunky and slow to navigate, it felt like we were battling FB rather than…

I may be totally off... But sound like you were trying to use several features in fogbugz just because they were there... And then liked best the one that did not give you so much hope for you to hang yourself

Re: Bitbucket passes one million users

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Post by HarveyKandola »

wdewind wrote: post #42
vyrotek wrote: post #32

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JIRA is pretty sweet to keep things in order. Really? I use and love BitBucket, but the last 2 places I worked at used JIRA and it was the worst project management tool I've ever used. I'm sure someone will say they didn't configure it right or educate the devs or something. Seriously though, it was pushed down from upper management in both cases and it was a terrible experience. Then they thought Greenhopper would f…

We use JIRA at Etsy (although we use Github for code reviews, not crucible). It is certainly frustrating, but I tend to think it's a "the worst except the rest" situation. Do you have something you like significantly better? I've experimented with stuff like trello, basecamp etc. and still haven't found them significantly better.

Check out Gemini from Countersoft: http://www.countersoft.com - something a little different from the norm

Re: Bitbucket passes one million users

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Post by Kabacaru »

mathrawka wrote: post #60
kleiba wrote: post #47

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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.

Also it's a pleasant way to track changes, view source code, and share code with coding buddies.

Re: Bitbucket passes one million users

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Post by stinos »

wyck wrote: post #39
vyrotek wrote: post #32

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JIRA is pretty sweet to keep things in order. Really? I use and love BitBucket, but the last 2 places I worked at used JIRA and it was the worst project management tool I've ever used. I'm sure someone will say they didn't configure it right or educate the devs or something. Seriously though, it was pushed down from upper management in both cases and it was a terrible experience. Then they thought Greenhopper would f…

JIRA is really for issue tracking. Grasshopper isn't a fix, they are separate products and thus do not do the same thing. Slamming Jira for project management is like complaining about a rake's ability to dig holes. Personally I think Jira is a great for issue/bug tracking when using bitbucket.

exactly, the integration between Jira and BitBucket is also top notch.

Re: Bitbucket passes one million users

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Post by shuzchen »

jonknee wrote: post #101
MBlume wrote: post #96

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From a user's perspective, Hg is so limited I consider it basically unusable.

I seem to get my stuff done in either. What's missing for you in hg?

Being an active user of both git and hg, I also can't think of any features I make extensive use of in git (rebase, feature branches, etc) that I can't get with hg. My workflows in both are pretty much the same, just a saner interface on the hg side. If anything, git doesn't have revsets, a really powerful query language you can use to sift through your history - see http://www.selenic.com/hg/help/revsets
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